Implementation of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) in a Small Scale Organization

Abstract

Lean tools and techniques are now a day's widely used in many manufacturing organizations around the world for elimination of wastages at various stages of manufacturing. Their implementation improves the overall performance of organization. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is one of the lean tool can be used by small and medium scale organization for identification and visualization of value added and non value added activities. Therefore VSM can result in improvement in lead time also may help to reduce overall cost of production. This paper describes use of VSM in a pump manufacturing industry. All VSM measures are used to calculate current state map calculations. From current state and future map calculations corrective actions have been taken which leads in reduction of lead time by 3 %.Along with implementation of VSM principle additionally some other tasks related with lean are also carried out which helped to improve overall performance of manufacturing in the organization.