Value Stream Maps (VSM) are a powerful tool used in lean manufacturing and other business processes to visualize and analyze the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or ...

"Process mapping on steroids." That's how John Dyer used to describe value stream mapping back when VSM was just beginning to assert itself as a new continuous improvement tool and process mapping was ...

A newly released hydrography data set for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed identified many more streams than the previous dataset. This example shows the new data in blue compared to the older maps in red ...