From the course: Excel: Value Stream Mapping
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From the course: Excel: Value Stream Mapping
Read a value stream map
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'd like to take a look at a value stream map that documents a process for assembling robots for sale by a consumer electronics company. I'll point out information flows, describe how the data relating to workstations and other resources fit into the overall process, and also identify the beginning and end of the elements we're concerned with. There's a lot to take in. You ready? Okay, here it is, in all of its glory. It seems like there's a lot, and, well, frankly, there is, but we can break it down fairly straightforwardly. If you look at the top right corner, you will see three pieces of information. That is our weekly demand for total robots, then the production time available in seconds. So that would be five days, times eight hours, times 60 minutes per hour, times 60 seconds, and that adds up to 144,000 seconds available. The takt time is the heartbeat of the process. And that is…
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