Product Description
Value-stream mapping is an overarching tool that gives managers and executives a picture of the entire production process, showing both value and nonvalue-creating activities. Rather than taking a haphazard approach to lean implementation, value-stream mapping establishes a direction for the company. Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step instruction manual that teaches this valuable tool to… More >>
Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA
#1 by Joshua Strait on February 8, 2010 - 6:02 pm
If your interested in VSM. This is a great buy. Really breaks it down for you.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Paolo Giai Miniet on February 8, 2010 - 9:00 pm
This book really deserve your attention. If you read “Lean Thinking” the book by Womack and Jones and you enjoyed it, you can’t miss “Learning to see” as it goes deeply into the details of chapters 2 and 3 of the Womack-Jones work helping the reader to understand that an industry is not a no profit organization but an organization that need to make -and/or possibly not wasting – money.
In my experience almost every improvement acitivity must begin with a material-value flow analysis. In this standpoint this book has been for me illuminating.
I give to it 5 star because it has a strong practical touch and is rich of informations and hints -”draw the flow with a pencil, focus on the process not on how well you use the computer”…
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by T. Knox on February 8, 2010 - 10:36 pm
This is the best book to use to learn value stream mapping, and you can honestly use the insight gained by working through it to improve factory processes. Really.
I worked through the book myself over a hotel weekend, and then tried it out, and then read it again. I have honestly used Value Stream Mapping to take $5 million + (probably WAY+) worth of stupid out of the processes at my part of a factory that does about $30M per month in sales
The bad:
The book comes with a CD. It’s worthless. If you buy a used copy without the CD, don’t worry about it.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Maria C. Clark on February 9, 2010 - 1:26 am
An excellent reference for commercial application of value stream mapping in a production environment. Would have liked to see more material on transactional (paperwork) or service environments.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by CWV on February 9, 2010 - 2:14 am
I received my book in record time and was very satisfied with the service. I recommend this seller!!
Rating: 5 / 5