Lean Manufacturing

Lean manufacturing or lean production is a concept of organization's management which is based on the constant effort to eliminate all kinds of losses. Lean manufacturing requires involvement of each employee in the process of business optimization and maximum customer orientation.

The main principles of the lean manufacturing concept are evaluation of the value of product for the final consumer at each stage of its creation, and also creation of a continuous process of eliminating waste - the elimination of any actions that consume resources but create no value for the end user. As a synonym for the concept of loss sometimes is used the term from the Toyota's production system — "muda" which meaning all sorts of costs, losses, waste, garbage.

According to the lean manufacturing concept, all company activities are divided on the operations and processes that add value for the consumer, and the operations and processes that don't add value for the consumer. The objective of lean manufacturing is the systematic reduction of the processes and operations which don't add value.

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software enhanced with Value Stream Mapping solution from the Quality area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is perfect for the lean manufacturing.

Example 1. Lean Manufacturing

Value Stream Mapping Solution offers the extensive drawing tools for the lean manufacturing process. The great value has the availability of predesigned vector objects in Value Stream Mapping library of the Value Stream Mapping Solution. These ready-to-use objects let you the possibility to draw without efforts - all that you need is simply drag ready objects from the library to the document, arrange and connect them and make style changes.

Example 2. Value Stream Mapping Library Design Elements

The lean manufacturing sample you see on this page was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software using the Value Stream Mapping Solution for ConceptDraw Solution Park. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Use the Value Stream Mapping Solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM to realize effectively the lean manufacturing process and easily draw professional looking diagrams.

All source documents are vector graphic documents. They are available for reviewing, modifying, or converting to a variety of formats (PDF file, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and many other graphic formats) from the ConceptDraw STORE. The Value Stream Mapping Solution is available for all ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

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Business Process Flowchart Symbols →

Diagramming is an astonishing way to visualize business processes. The list of the most common business process flowchart symbols is quite long starting from basic flowcharts, continuing with SIPOC diagrams. Business process modeling was never easier than now, with special ConceptDraw Business Process Mapping solution. To carry out all professional standard requirements for business processes mapping, it is necessarily to follow the special graphical notations. ConceptDraw Business Process Mapping solution offers an exhaustive suite of tools to aid business process mapping. There are three vector libraries SIPOC Diagrams, Business Process Flowcharts, and Swim Lanes that contains totally more than 50 symbols of standard BPM notations. This is all that professionals need to effectively evaluate and manage quality in business processes.

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Flowchart Symbols: Meaning and Examples →

While creating flowcharts and process flow diagrams, you should use special objects to define different statements, so anyone aware of flowcharts can get your scheme right. There is a short and an extended list of basic flowchart symbols and their meaning. Basic flowchart symbols include terminator objects, rectangles for describing steps of a process, diamonds representing appearing conditions and questions and parallelograms to show incoming data. This diagram gives a general review of the standard symbols that are used when creating flowcharts and process flow diagrams. The practice of using a set of standard flowchart symbols was admitted in order to make flowcharts and other process flow diagrams created by any person properly understandable by other people. The flowchart symbols depict different kinds of actions and phases in a process. The sequence of the actions, and the relationships between them are shown by special lines and arrows. There are a large number of flowchart symbols. Which of them can be used in the particular diagram depends on its type. For instance, some symbols used in data flow diagrams usually are not used in the process flowcharts. Business process system use exactly these flowchart symbols. Flowchart example showing a customer request approval process with start, input output, process steps, decision branches, and end

Flowchart example showing a customer request approval process with start, input output, process steps, decision branches, and end

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