Maintenance ManagementValue Stream Mapping
Most improvement effort is spent making individual steps faster inside a process where the material or the paperwork spends the overwhelming majority of its time waiting between steps. Value stream mapping makes that visible. Delegates work through selecting a product or service family and walking the flow rather than mapping it from a meeting room, recording process data and the inventory and waiting between each step, and separating value adding time from total lead time. The current state map is built from observation. Analysis follows: identifying the constraint, the batching and the information flow that drives the delays. A future state map is designed with flow, pull and levelling. The course closes on the implementation plan that turns a map into a sequence of changes.
Course objectives
- Select a product or service family worth mapping
- Walk the flow and record data at source rather than from a meeting room
- Capture inventory, waiting and information flow between steps
- Separate value adding time from total lead time
- Identify the constraint, batching and information delays
- Design a future state using flow, pull and levelling
- Convert the future state into a sequenced implementation plan
Who should attend
- Improvement and operational excellence practitioners
- Production and operations managers
- Supply chain and logistics staff
- Service and administrative process owners
- Engineers leading process redesign
Course outline
- 01Time spent waiting between steps
- 02Selecting a family to map
- 03Walking the flow
- 04Process data, inventory and waiting
- 05Information flow
- 06Value adding time against lead time
- 07Future state design with flow and pull
- 08Levelling and the implementation plan
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 to 20 November 2026 | Online | Online | R6,500 per delegate | Register Now |
| 30 December 2026 to 1 January 2027 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 25 to 27 January 2027 | Maputo, Mozambique | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |