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Value Stream Mapping For The Core Department In Foundry Of A Tractor Manufacturing Firm, Narendra Bhati

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A value stream is all the actions required to bring a product through the main flows essential to every product. It begins at the "door-to-door" production flow level and allows you to see the entire picture. It identifies waste and the sources of waste. Provides a common language and questions current decisions that happen by default. It eliminates bias improvement picking. It links material and information flow and gives a qualitative description of how your facility should operate.

An excellent spot for observing the value stream is the aisle of the supermarket. for it is here that a thousand streams …