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Leveraging Digital Mixed Model Value Stream Maps: A Leadership Guide to Deploying These Maps to Remove Waste book cover

1st Edition

Leveraging Digital Mixed Model Value Stream Maps A Leadership Guide to Deploying These Maps to Remove Waste

By Girish Hidaduggi, Jon Fournier, Herman Ranpuria, Dilesh Patel Copyright 2025
142 Pages 116 Color Illustrations
by Productivity Press

142 Pages 116 Color Illustrations
by Productivity Press

142 Pages 116 Color Illustrations
by Productivity Press
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This guide serves as a roadmap for integrating digital value stream mapping (eVSM) into your Lean deployment to improve production processes. Lean, with its mapping component, value stream mapping (VSM), has endured as a process improvement methodology for more than 25 years. VSM is a metrics-based analytical mapping method with simple calculations for Lean metrics such as Takt Time, VA, NVA,... Read more

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

How to use Guide

Guide Sections

PART I: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

PART II: BUILDING A MIXED MODEL MAP

PART Ill: ANALYZING CURRENT STATE

PART IV: PLANNING IMPROVEMENTS

PART V: LIVING VSM LEVERAGE

PART VI: DEPLOYMENT BEST PRACTICE

Guide Summary

APPENDIX A: VSM CASE STUDIES

APPENDIX B: eVSM MIX LEAN KIT

References

Index

Biography

With over a decade at The eVSM Group, Girish Hidaduggi has significantly contributed to the evolution of Mix Technology. He oversees product testing, eLearning content creation, and research on integrating environmental factors into value streams. Girish also leads the eVSM Academics division to bridge the gap between academics and industry needs. Girish holds an MBA from Symbiosis University and an engineering degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University.

Jon Fournier, an industrial engineering graduate from Western New England College, has been with The eVSM Group for 12 years and leads software development for the group. He has innovated to allow the software to create and analyze digital mixed model value stream maps. Jon created an eLearning framework that can be used as an authoring environment for learning by doing.

Herman Ranpuria is a co-founder and vice president of operations at The eVSM Group. He has authored comprehensive eLearning materials for digital value stream mapping. A mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Nottingham, he has over 20 years of lean methods application experience, including 8 years in aerodynamics engineering at Rolls-Royce.

Dilesh Patel is Co-founder and CEO of The eVSM Group, Dilesh is an expert in leveraging digital tools for lean deployments. He has a strong background in engineering consulting, software development, and product management from his 20 years working at Siemens. An award-winning innovator, Dilesh holds engineering degrees from MIT and the University of Southampton.

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