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A complementary product to the "Learning to See" workbook, eVSM software is a drag-and-drop diagramming tool created specifically to let lean practitioners in manufacturing, services and healthcare sectors create electronic value stream maps. The software is used today by over 4000 Lean practitioners in 40 plus countries and in 20% of the Fortune 500 companies.
Walking the shop or office floor with a paper and pencil to collect data and observe actual conditions is how value-stream mapping (VSM) is done. But for a long time, members of the Lean Community have been sharing these hand-drawn maps by creating their own electronic templates from scratch in various software programs. eVSM makes this process of turning hand-drawn maps into electronic ones easier and faster. As a companion -not as a substitute- to paper-and-pencil mapping, the software allows lean practitioners to easily create, modify, analyze and disseminate electronic value stream maps. The eVSM software is developed independently by GumshoeKI, a visual communications company and a Microsoft Visio Solutions partner.
The drawing process is made easier with features such as automatic snap-to positioning of icons and right-click menus of data box attributes, such as cycle time, up-time, and rework percentage.
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 eVSM has been extended by GumshoeKI since its first release to support the new workbooks from the Lean Enterprise Institute (Seeing the Whole, Creating Continuous Flow, Making Materials Flow, Creating Level Pull) and has alignment with and support of these workbooks as a primary ongoing objective.
eVSM allows lean practitioners to:
- Transfer paper and pencil value-stream maps into an electronic format for presentations.
- Create multiple versions of future-state maps for implementation and what-if analysis.
- Communicate value-stream maps to others via E-mail or the web.
- Organize multiple maps for macro value stream analysis.
- Perform simple lean calculations visually using a Formula Wizard and an integrated Excel spreadsheet.
- Add visual gadgets directly on the map to graphically display and communicate key VSM values.
- Manage the lean transformation with a visual story-board.
- Standardize and speed up the mapping process with multi-shape templates.
- Export map and Kaizen data via Excel to other Microsoft Applications.
eVSM is currently supported on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
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