Demand Flow® Technology and Value-Stream Mapping
Shanghai, February 2005
The principles of Demand Flow® Technology are a close complement to those of Value-Stream Mapping. Value Stream Mapping shows how product and information flow across all the process steps in the supply-chain. It compares the current state with the future state to provide a visual description of the target objectives that need to be achieved. Demand Flow® Technology provides a complete set of tools for all of the manufacturing process changes that need to be made to meet these objectives. There is a precise step-by-step methodology to establish the ideal product flow starting within manufacturing and a comprehensive set of planning tools to extend across the entire supply-chain.
DFT is able to extend beyond the natural boundaries of Value-Stream Mapping and uses specific tools to drive product flow right through the manufacturing process.
Key areas of synergy and enhancement are:
? Together Value Stream Mapping and Demand Flow Technology provide a common language to drive all parts of the manufacturing enterprise to changes in value at the customer.
? Demand Flow Technology delivers quantitative actions to execute on the qualitative visualizations of Value Stream Mapping.
? Demand Flow Technology provides the mathematical tools to implement One-Piece Product Flow right across the manufacturing processes.
? Value-Stream Mapping defines a break-though by comparing Current and Future states. Demand Flow Technology realizes the breakthrough by reducing the production cycle time down to the levels of total work-content time.
? Demand Flow Technology applies its mathematical tools to Value Stream Mapping's summary dat ...