A New Value Stream Mapping Approach for Engineer-to-Order Production Systems [chapter]

Maria Kollberg Thomassen, Erlend Alfnes, Erik Gran
2015 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
Companies seeking to implement lean practices in engineer-to-order environments experience major difficulties due to a high degree of non-standard products and non-repetitive processes. Current lean methods need to be further developed to be more efficiently applied in manufacturing environments with high variety and complexity. This paper presents a new approach for value stream mapping adapted to engineer-to-order production systems. The approach combines the classic value stream mapping
more » ... ach with recent works dealing with lean methods in high mix and complex production systems. Also, it proposes a stronger focus on the choice of location of the customer order decoupling point compared to previous research.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22759-7_24 fatcat:yb2jhai7evcbnpfg52bowprhd4