Evaluation of simulation-assisted value stream mapping for software product development: Two industrial cases

Ali, Nauman bin; Petersen, Kai; França, Breno Bernard Nicolau de

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2015.08.005

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“…There are some examples of sectors that applied value stream mapping on Table 2. [44], [45], [46] 2.5. 5S…”

Section: Value Stream Mappingmentioning

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Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Duraković

Demir²,

Abat³

et al. 2018

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Many manufacturing cost reduction initiatives have been introduced over past three decades including lean manufacturing. Waste reduction and efficiency improvement are the main objectives of this initiative. It is developed from a set of tools and techniques and can fit nicely in cost focus or cost leadership competitive advantage strategies. But, keeping competitive advantage under the market circumstances are getting harder with growth of production quantity and product diversity. Therefore, paper's focus is lean manufacturing implementation trends and issues within the various manufacturing sector. Successes and failures of implementation of lean manufacturing in some industries are discussed. It was found that lean principles are good source of competitive advantage, it is applicable for many industries and its expansion and discussion are significantly progressing. The biggest threat in implementing lean is lack of understanding the concept but those who engage consultants were more successful.

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“…There are some examples of sectors that applied value stream mapping on Table 2. [44], [45], [46] 2.5. 5S…”

Section: Value Stream Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Duraković

Demir²,

Abat³

et al. 2018

PEN

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“…Based on customer requirements, inventory, and cycle times, the analysis of the current state of production is performed by team. Revision and improvement of the flow of values are then derived from the flow mapping of the current values of the production process [26][27][28]. Value flow mapping is a standardized method based on generally accepted symbols.…”

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Digital Value Stream Mapping Using the Tecnomatix Plant Simulation Software

Trebuňa¹,

Pekarčíková²,

Edl³

2019

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Value Stream Mapping is a common and widely used method of industrial engineering. It creates a comprehensive overview of the possibilities of improving the production flow of the company as a whole and eliminates the introduction of incremental measures that would reduce the flexibility of the system as a whole. This article presents a method for optimizing material and information flows in a production company in the context of the Industry 4.0. The aim of the article is to emphasize the potential of software tools in synergy with the classical tool of lean manufacturing -Value Stream Mapping (VSM). For this purpose, the case study is focused on digital VSM in environment of the simulation software TX Plant Simulation. The transformation of the classical digital approach allows dynamic evaluations based on real discrete simulation of events and a simple evaluation of optimized variants.

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“…Supply chain challenges in the consumer goods sector were addressed in [62] and [63] to improve two particular processes in the wine and agri-food industry, respectively. The success of value stream mapping is, for example, also demonstrated in product development phases [64], logistical system design [65], software development [66], and service industries [67], so that the universality of this lean technique is worthy of note. Finally, other applications of value stream analysis focused on environmental, waste reduction [68], or manufacturing sustainability performance improvement [69][70][71] are presented in the bibliography, and also social and economic sustainability issues are targeted with value stream analysis [72][73][74].…”

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Value Stream Analysis in Military Logistics: The Improvement in Order Processing Procedure

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Military logistics is a complex process where response times, demand uncertainty, wide variety of material references, and cost-effectiveness are decisive for combat capability. The demanding flexibility can only be achieved by improving supply chain management (SCM) to minimize lead times. To cope with these requirements, lean thinking can be extended to military organizations. This research justifies and proposes the use of lean methodologies to improve logistics processes with the case study of a military unit. In particular, the article presents the results obtained using value stream mapping (VSM) and value stream design (VSD) tools to improve the order processing lead time of spare items. The procedure starts with an order generation from a military unit that requests the material and ends before transportation to the final destination. The whole project was structured, considering the define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC) problem-solving methodology. The results show that the future state map might increase added-value activities from 44% to 70%. After implementation, it was demonstrated that the methodology applied reduced the lead-time average and deviation up to 69.6% and 61.9%, respectively.Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 106 2 of 17 in the supply chain reliability by synchronizing each element internally and externally, forecasting the demand and managing inventories and assets efficiently.To minimize response times and to assure the required flexibility avoided wastes, the lean philosophy can be extended to supply chain management in military organizations. For example, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has been working intensively together with service providers and supporting contractors to introduce and apply lean principles into their organizations to optimize internal lead times [7]. The origin of lean philosophy is generally attributed to the practices developed from the TPS or Toyota Production System [8,9], pioneered by Taiichi Ohno [10] and Shigeo Shingo [11]. Their lean principles related to philosophy, processes, people, partners, and problem-solving allow organizations the implementation of lean thinking at different levels. Moreover, TPS has influenced not only manufacturing concepts but also supply chain management ones [12][13][14]. The concept of lean supply is described in [15,16] as an operating attitude that needs to be changed in relation to suppliers so that the effect of associated costs to non-perfect processes will not be limited to the location of the execution. This approach targets long-term customer satisfaction. Thus, supply chain optimization is possible according to the three main TPS goals: best quality, lowest cost, and shortest lead-time, which are achieved by continuous improvement and increasing operations' added value.This work evaluates the use of lean methodologies and their application to military logistics functions, focusing on supply chain management processes for spare parts. We present a case study to improve military material order processing pr...

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Evaluation of simulation-assisted value stream mapping for software product development: Two industrial cases

Cited by 36 publications

References 26 publications

Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Digital Value Stream Mapping Using the Tecnomatix Plant Simulation Software

Value Stream Analysis in Military Logistics: The Improvement in Order Processing Procedure

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