Manufacturing Industry
Mapping manufacturing: remarkable results at Medtronic's medical-devices plant flow from value-stream mapping. (Best Plants).
Industry Week, October, 2002 by Mcclenahen, John S.
Pick up just about any map of Jacksonville, Fla., and it's easy to find your way to Medtronic Inc.'s Xomed plant off I-95 south of town.
Navigating the value-stream mapping process that is critical to the medical-products plant's impressive manufacturing achievements is a bit more challenging.
First, there is the shear number of those streams: 48 at last count. There are the Lean Enterprise Institute's distinctive icons--for such things as suppliers, customers, order entry and changeover time--that are used in drawing maps of everything that figures into the plant's manufacturing processes. And finally, but certainly not least, there is that term. Value-stream mapping sounds as if it has more to do with charting a river than with producing stuff used...
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