16 ◾ Capitalizing on Lean Production Systems to Win New Business
Conclusion
The skeleton value stream mapping approach to product acquisition and launch
is a value. It forces everyone to sweat the details of producing and launching
a new product. Too many times in our facilities, new product is quoted and
won based on numbers in a book, not how the product will fit into and run
in the current production system. This needs to change so that new product is
successfully acquired, launched, and run efficiently and effectively in the current
production system.
The next chapter begins to deal with material flow. Material flow is vital to a
production area, whether it has a high volume, low volume, high mix of parts,
or a low mix of parts. To make just ...