Process Mapping & Value Stream Toolbox

Methods to map current-state flows, identify waste, and design future-state processes.

Facilitator Guide

Value Stream Mapping Workshop — Facilitator Guide & Templates

A practical, facilitator-ready guide to run a full-day current-state Value Stream Mapping (VSM) workshop. Includes participant roles, an hour-by-hour agenda, data collection templates, a mapping symbols cheat-sheet, quick takt and lead-time calculators with examples, facilitation tips, and an output template for prioritized kaizen opportunities and ownership.

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Value Stream Mapping Workshop Kit

A practical facilitator kit for running a 1-day (or scaled) Value Stream Mapping workshop that produces a current-state map, a focused future-state design, and a prioritized, owner-assigned implementation roadmap. Includes pre-work, agenda with time-boxes, templates and data fields to collect, mapping symbols, waste prompts, a prioritization matrix, facilitation tips, and a simple follow-up cadence to ensure workshop outputs turn into measurable improvements.

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Workshop Kit

Value Stream Mapping Workshop Kit

A practical facilitator kit with pre-work templates, a timed workshop agenda, mapping tools, metric checklists, facilitation tips, implementation-roadmap templates, and a benefits calculator—designed to turn current-state maps into measurable, prioritized, and resourced future-state improvements.

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Value Stream Mapping Workshop Plan

A practical, ready-to-run facilitation plan with pre-work, a time‑boxed agenda, visual mapping templates, suggested metrics to capture, a simple scoring rubric for kaizen selection, and an action-owner tracker for measurable post-workshop follow-up.

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Value Stream Mapping – Current-State Workshop Workbook

Facilitator workbook, participant worksheets, templates, data-collection methods, and an action-log to run a reliable current-state VSM workshop that captures takt, cycle time, uptime, changeover, inventory, and information flow — and turns observations into owned improvement actions.

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CheatSheet

VSM Quick Reference (symbols, lead time, takt, wastes, quick checklist)

One-page practical VSM reference: symbol legend, standard data to capture in process boxes, concise formulas (available time, takt time, process time, lead time, lead time efficiency), brief example calculation, the 8 wastes checklist with spotting prompts, common mapping pitfalls, and quick next steps after a mapping session.

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