This paper deals with one such Cost Savings that was achieved through the application of lean principles to an extended value stream. Value stream maps were used as the instrument to study and identify improvement 0ppoliunities. By passing on part of the savings to the consumer, the automaker was able to provide better value to its customers.
This paper deals with one such Cost Savings that was achieved through the application of lean principles to an extended value stream. Value stream maps were used as the instrument to study and identify improvement 0ppoliunities. By passing on part of the savings to the consumer, the automaker was able to provide better value to its customers.
This paper deals with one such Cost Savings that was achieved through the application of lean principles to an extended value stream. Value stream maps were used as the instrument to study and identify improvement 0ppoliunities. By passing on part of the savings to the consumer, the automaker was able to provide better value to its customers.
Lean Principles Applied to Extended Value Stream Mapping
To Achieve a Costs Savings in the North American
Automotive Industry by Daniel A. Ramos A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree 10 Manufacturing Engineering 3 Semester Credits The Graduate School University of Wisconsin-Stout May 2010 Author: Title: The Graduate School University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI Ramos, Daniel A. Lean Principles Applied to Extended Value Stream Mapping to Acltieve a Cost Savings il1 tlte Nortlt American Automotive Industry Graduate Degree/ Major: Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering Research Adviser: James Keyes, Ph.D. MonthfVear: May, 2010 Number of Pages: 72 Style Manual Used: American Psychological Association, 6 th edition Abstract In 2007, Toyota surpassed General Motors as the world's largest automaker. This signaled the beginning of a very challenging time for N O1ih America's automakers. Amidst a worsening global economy and slumping consumer demand, the SUV and pick-up truck sectors found themselves in deep crisis. Sales plummeted between 2007 and 2008. It became imperative for these automakers to provide better value for consumers by implementing costs savings. This paper deals with one such cost savings that was achieved through the application oflean principles to an extended value stream. Value stream maps were used as the instrument to study and identify improvement 0ppoliunities. The lean improvement methodology also relied on value stream maps to model the proposed improved versions ofthe extended value stream. By passing on part of the savings to the consumer, the automaker was able to provide better value to its customers. As predicted by the literature, the lean principles for improving 2 extended value streams resulted in a successful cost savings implementation that benefitted the automaker, its supplier, and most importantly consumers. 3 The Graduate School University of Wisconsin Stout Menomonie, WI Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Jim Keyes for his constant support, 4 guidance, and understanding throughout the thesis writing process. I would also like to thank Dr. Danny Bee for his encouragement and sound advice during my studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. I am paliicularly grateful to Dr. Pete Heimdahl for encouraging me to apply to the Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering. Last but not least, I would like to thank my family for their suppOli. 5 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................... Page Abstract ....................................................................................................................... 2 List of Figures ............................................................................................................. 8 Chapter I: Introduction ............................................................................................... 9 Statement of the Problem ............................................................................... 10 Purpose of the Study ...................................................................................... 11 Assumptions of the Study .............................................................................. 12 Definition of Terms ....................................................................................... 13 Limitations of the Study ................................................................................ 16 Methodology .................................................................................................. 17 Chapter II: Literature Review ................................................................................... 19 North America's Awakening to Lean Manufacturing .................................... 19 Principles of Lean ........................................................................................... 20 Ford's Contributions to Lean Manufacturing ................................................. 20 The Beginnings of Lean Production ............................................................... 22 The Objective of a Lean Production System .................................................. 23 Jidoka: A First Pillar of the Toyota Production System ................................. 24 Just-in-Time: A Second Pillar of the Toyota Production System ................... 24 The Role of Standardization in the Toyota Production System ...................... 25 The Role Stabilization in the Toyota Production System ............................... 25 At the He31i of the Toyota Production System ............................................... 27 Value Stream Mapping ................................................................................... 27 6 Extended Value Stream Mapping ................................................................... 29 Extended Value Stream: Future States ........................................................... 30 Cooperation in Extended Value Streams ........................................................ 32 Chapter III: Methodology ......................................................................................... 34 Subject of the Study .... ................................................................................... 35 Instrumentation ... ... .... .......... ......................................................................... 35 Data Collection ...................................................................... .. ..................... 36 Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 37 Current state analysis (future state I) ................................................ 37 Future state II analysis ...................................................................... 42 Ideal state analysis ............................................................................ 46 Limitations of the methodology .................................................................... 52 Chapter IV: Results ................................................................................................... 54 Results of the CUlTent State Extended Value Stream Map ........................... 55 Table 1: Results of Extended Value Stream Improvements ......................... 55 Results ofIdeal State Extended Value Stream Map ..................................... 56 Results of the Lean Implementation ............................................................. 58 Chapter V: Discussion .............................................................................................. 60 Limitations of the Study ............................................................................... 61 Development of the Current State Extended Value Steam Map .................. 62 Development of the Ideal State Extended Value Stream Map ..................... 63 Future state II .................................................................................... 63 Ideal state .......................................................................................... 63 7 Implementation of the Ideal State Extended Value Stream Map .................. 65 Conclusions ............................................................................ .................. ...... 66 Recommendations ... .................................. : .................................................... 67 Center of knowledge .......................................................................... 67 Value stream manager .............................................................. .. ....... 67 Value stream continuous improvement ............................................. 67 Value stream mapping up-front ........................................................ . 67 References .............. ................................................................................................. 68 Appendix A: Takt Time Calculation ...................................................................... 70 Appendix B: Process Cycle Efficiency Calculation ........................................ ...... . 71 Appendix C: Expected Cost Savings Calculation ................................................... 72 8 List of Figures Figure 1: Framex-Universal current state extended value stream map ....................... .40 Figure 2: Framex Facility current state value stream map .................................... .41 Figure 3: Framex-Universal future state II extended value stream map ...................... .44 Figure 4: Framex Facility future state II value stream map ................ .. ...... .. .......... .45 Figure 5: Framex-Universal ideal state extended value stream map .......................... .49 Figure 6: Framex-Mexico facility ideal state value stream map ................................ 50 Figure 7: Framex Canada facility ideal state value stream map ................................ 51 9 Chapter I: Introduction The pressure on American vehicle manufacturers to remain competitive has never been greater. Competition from foreign automakers and decreasing consumer demand have forced domestic car companies to focus on reducing costs while revamping product lines to include vehicles that are more appealing to consumers. In short, domestic car companies are striving to provide better value in order to survive. In The Machine That Changed the World, Womack, Jones, and Roos (1990) made the case that lean manufacturing would eventually unseat the mass production model of the early American automakers such as Ford and General Motors. American companies, the authors asserted, would have to embrace lean manufacturing to remain competitive with their Japanese counterparts. Indeed, in 2007, Toyota assumed the rank of the world's largest auto maker. It is now clear that lean production philosophy, as embodied in the Toyota Production System, has set a new standard of competition in the global automotive industry. In NOlih America, auto makers and their suppliers are grappling with the problem of having to reduce costs while increasing the value passed on to consumers. Adopting lean manufacturing practices is not only a matter of being competitive these days, it is also a matter of staying in business (Womack, 2009). The SUV and pick-up truck sectors have been the hardest hit in this economic downturn. High gas prices and lower demand have created an urgent need to implement costs savings to make up for lost revenues. If auto makers and their suppliers can reduce costs, pali of those savings can be passed on to consumers providing them with better value. These savings can also help to improve profit margins. 10 Statement of the Problem Framex is a Tier 1 supplier of body frames for pick-up trucks and SUV's. It operates facilities in Mexico and Canada and supplies frames to Universal who is a leading US automaker based in Michigan. As requested by the companies involved, the names "Universal" and "Framex" have been used instead of the real company names. Framex's Canadian facility specializes in the production of steel frames , while its Mexican facility specializes in the production of aluminum frames. In 2005, when the pick-up platform was launched, the cost of shipping aluminum frames from Framex Mexico to Michigan was considered relatively inexpensive. At that time, the American dollar was stronger. Fuel and aluminum prices were relatively low and a specialized teclmology approach was acceptable (Pinkham, 2005). These conditions no longer held true in 2008. The basic problem is as follows. 90% of the pick-up trucks built at Universal's Michigan assembly plant are built with steel frames shipped from Canada. However, the other 10% are aluminum frames shipped from Mexico. While Framex Canada is located 126 miles away from Universal's Michigan location, Framex Mexico is located over 2000 miles away. Given the new economic circumstances of 2008, it would be ideal if both types of frames could be shipped from the Canadian Framex facility. However, moving Framex's entire manufacturing operations from Mexico to Canada is simply not possible within the time constraints of this field problem. This study will deal with the problem of reducing Universal's cost of purchasing aluminum frames from Framex, currently shipped from Mexico. In March of 2008, Universal asked Framex to implement changes to its manufacturing operations that will result in a significant cost savings. Universal requires that the cost savings be implemented in time for the new model year change due in August of 2008. 11 Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to implement lean improvements in the manufacturing operations of aluminum frames supplied by Framex to Universal ' s Michigan assembly plant. These improvements needed to be implemented within a period of six months and result in a cost savings for Universal. If Universal can reduce its costs, some of the savings can be used to increase its profit margins. Some of the savings can also be passed on as incentives to consumers, thereby providing better value. To achieve the purpose of this study, the researcher will use a lean manufacturing approach based on extended value stream mapping. The process of extended value stream mapping in this study can be broken down into three sub-problems. The first sub-problem is to establish the CUlTent state of Framex manufacturing and supply operations. The current state extended value stream map will serve as a baseline for comparison with the proposed future state. The second sub-problem will be to analyze the current state and propose changes that will improve transpOliation links and optimize manufacturing locations. This will result in an ideal state extended value stream map. The third sub-problem will be to carryout the lean improvements and evaluate whether the implementation ofthe ideal state was successful. A lean manufacturing approach is expected to yield benefits for Universal, Framex, and most importantly for the consumer. As with any lean implementation, a reduction of non-value added activities is expected as a results of process improvements. A leaner transpOliation network is also expected as a main outcome including reduced inventories and lead times. 12 Assumptions of the Study This study assumes that Universal and Framex will share the burden of financing any investments required for this cost savings initiative. In other words, the researcher assumes that Universal and Framex will work cooperatively. This assumption is fundamental to a successful extended value stream implementation (Dolcemascolo, 2006). It is also assumed that changes in manufacturing location or equipment will not affect the quality or reliability of the product. This assumption provides the rationale for not planning for product validation after the lean implementation is done. This field problem will be focused on improving the extended value stream. The researcher assumes that lean production is already taking place within each of the individual manufacturing locations. Theoretically, the implementation of lean manufacturing within individual facilities should happen before the extended value stream can be optimized (Jones & Womack, 2002). Furthermore, this study assumes that market conditions will remam stable once the project is completed. Market conditions include cost of materials, fuel prices, and labor. Stable market conditions also include a stable consumer demand. If market conditions change drastically immediately after the project is complete, the benefits may not materialize as anticipated. Lastly, it is assumed that Universal only pays the cost of shipping of finished goods from Framex to its pick-up truck assembly plant. Any transportation of PaIts between Framex facilities is paid by Framex. 13 Definition of Terms Changeover time. The time required to adjust a piece of manufacturing equipment to enable it to make a different product. It is measured as the time between the last good piece of the previous product to the first good piece of the next product being made at a workcell or workstation (Duggan, 2002). Current state extended value stream map. An extended value stream map representing what is actually in the status quo. It is based on data obtained from observations (Jones & Womack, 2002). Cycle time. The time that elapses between two consecutive parts exiting a process O\Tash & Poling, 2008). Extended value stream. The series of steps, both value added and non-value added, required to bring a product or service from material inputs to the customer. These include steps between facilities and within facilities, as well as transp0l1ation links (Jones & Womack, 2002). ERP System: Enterprise Resource Planning system (Nash & Poling, 2008). Facility value stream map. Same as a value stream map. The use of word facility is used in contrast to extended value map (Jones & Womack, 2002). Future state I. An improvement over the CUlTent state where all the facilities In an extended value stream have been converted to lean production (Jones & Womack, 2002). Future state II. An improvement over the current state where all the facilities in an extended value stream have been converted to lean production and transp0l1ation has been optimized (Jones & Womack, 2002). Heijunka. The discipline of leveling the quantity and mIX of parts being produced (Rother & Shook, 1999). 14 Ideal state. An improvement over the current state where all the facilities in an extended value stream have been converted to lean production, transportation has been optimized, and location of facilities has been optimized (Jones & Womack, 2002). Inter-modal cross-dock. A cross-dock that unloads cargo from a truck and loads this same cargo onto a train (Jones & Womack, 2002). Jidoka. Refers to automation smart enough to detect defects and halt production when they occur (LikeI', 2004). Kaizen. Incremental improvement to a process or a product within a manufacturing context (Rother & Shook, 1999). Kaizen burst. This is a planned improvement initiative usually identified on a future state value stream map (Rother & Shook, 1999). Kanban. A request signal to produce or withdraw upstream materials in a production process (Rother & Shook, 1999). Lead-time. The amount of time elapsed between the order of a product or service to the time of delivery (Jones & Womack, 2002). Lean manufacturing. An approach to production based on the philosophy of eliminating all waste from production operations. In lean manufacturing, production only occurs when there is a demand from a downstream process (Rother & Shook, 1999). Non value-added worl{. Work done by a supplier that the customer is not willing to pay for (Rother & Shook, 1999). Pacemaker process. The process that receives the production orders and originates the pull signal for the value stream (Rother & Shook, 1999). 15 Process cycle efficiency. The ratio of value added time to the total lead-time for a value stream map Pull production. The production of pat1s based on a signal received from a downstream process (Womack & Jones, 1996) Push production. The production of pat1s without a signal received from a downstream process (Rother & Shook, 1999). Tald time. The rate of production required to keep up to the rate of customer orders (Rother & Shook, 1999). Tier 1 supplier. A company that sells to an auto maker Value. Value can only be defined by the ultimate customer. It is only meaningful when expressed in terms of a specific product (a good or a service, and often both at once), which meets the customer's needs at a specific price at a specific time. (Womack & Jones, 1996, p.16) Value stream. The series of steps, both value added and non-value added, required to bring a product or service to the customer (Jones & Womack, 2002). Value stream map. A diagrammatic representation of a value stream from material inputs to the delivery of finished good to the customer. Value stream maps contain symbols and information characterizing the flow of materials and infonnation within a facility. In the case of extended value stream maps, the transp0l1ation links and multiple facilities are included (Womack, 2006). 16 Value-added work. Work done by a supplier that the customer is willing to pay for (Nash & Poling, 2008). WIP: Work in process. Unfinished parts accumulated between processes waiting to be finished (Nash & Poling, 2008).' Limitations of the Study This paper will not analyze which product family will result in the value stream with the best improvement oppOliunities. Instead, the value stream selection is driven by a customer request. In this study, the extended value stream is limited to Framex's North American supply of aluminum pick-up frames to Universal's assembly plant in Michigan. Many value streams exist between Universal and Framex, consisting of several products and locations, but these will not be studied here. Any proposed changes to the extended value stream must be implemented within 6 months: between March and August of2008. This rapid return on investment strategy demonstrates the urgency that Universal places on this project. In contrast, a typical return on investment period is one year. A lean transformation of the individual plants would be a multi-year project and does not fit with the timing requirements. The researcher will limit this study to lean improvements that benefit the extended value stream. Lean initiatives within plants will only be undeliaken if they support improvements to the extended value stream. All lean initiatives will need to be implemented within the limitations of the existing ERP system. No significant changes to information systems will be considered in this study. Finally, the details of the business case that support the lean implementation will not be addressed. Instead, the researcher will limit the analysis of the value stream to lean manufacturing metrics. Methodology 17 In this study, the researcher used an extended value stream mappmg methodology developed in Seeing the Whole (Jones & Womack, 2002). In this book, the authors deal with improvements to a value stream that involves multiple manufacturing locations. This scenario corresponds closely to the relationship between Universal and Framex in the context of their NOlih American operations. In general, value stream mapping consists of three steps (Rother & Shook, 1999). The first step involves the analysis of the current state. A current state map records what is actually happening initially at the level of manufacturing and transpOliation operations. Lean metrics such as non-value added time and travel distances are recorded. This data is used later as a baseline to determine whether the value stream has become leaner. 18 The second step consists of proposing lean improvements. Lean principles, such as one- piece flow, reduction of waste, and minimization of transportation links, are the basis for lean improvement ideas. In the third step, the plans for improving the value stream are implemented and a future state is achieved. The objective is to achieve a value stream that is as close as possible to ideal state. The same metrics that were used to characterize the cUlTent state are re- evaluated to see whether the value stream has in fact become leaner and whether non-value added work has been reduced. In general, the value stream methodology also allows for continuous improvement. Rother and Shook (1999) call this "the present becomes future" cycle (p. 101). In the case of this study, a single iteration of the future state will be attempted due to time constraints. Chapter II: Literature Review North America's Awakening to Lean Manufacturing 19 Although lean production has been practiced by Toyota since the 1950s, the widespread study of lean in North America started in the early 1990s with the publication of The Machine ThaI Changed the World (Womack et aI., 1990). That book surveyed the global automotive industry and compared global efficiencies and trends. It documented the fact that some Japanese manufacturers were applying fundamentally different concepts in their approach to vehicle development and manufacturing. Ultimately, The Machine ThaI Changed the World came to represent something of an awakening for the North American auto industry. Womack and his research team at MIT in the early 1990's employed the term "lean" to describe this business model pioneered by Toyota. Since then, interest in lean manufacturing has resulted in a steady stream of books, articles, and seminars on the topic, all explaining the Toyota Production System (Blanchard, 2007). It is clear that lean has gained acceptance in the North American manufacturing community, despite the fact that widespread implementation of lean is still a work in progress. Essentially, lean manufacturing seeks to produce a product that is exactly what the customer wants, when the customer wants it, while minimizing all non-value added activities in production (Womack & Jones, 2005). In the literature, value is simply defined as what the customer is willing to pay for. Non-value added activities are generally understood to be either waste, or incidental activities that are necessary but add no value to the product. The best example of a non-value added activity is quality assurance. Quality inspections do not add value to a product; they merely detect defects before they reach the consumer. 20 Principles of Lean The Lean Institute lists five principles of lean philosophy (Lean Enterprise Institute, 2008). These are: 1. Value should be specified from the point of view of the customer, and it should relate to a specific product family 2. The value stream must be identified. This means identifying all the actions and steps that need to happen to bring a product to the customer 3. Make the value-creating steps flow. This requires optimizing the value stream for the product family. Batch production and depal1mentalization of skills are impediments to flow 4. Produce according to customer pull. Once the production system has been setup according to the above principles, production can be scheduled in accordance to actual customer demand 5. Pursue perfection. This principle acknowledges that there are endless opportunities for improvements. A truly lean enterprise will engage in continuous improvements of the value stream Ford's Contributions to Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing is modeled mainly after the Toyota Production System. However, even Toyota bOlTowed some concepts from Henry Ford (Womack et aI., 1990). Although Ford is known as the inventor of mass production, he also originated the concept of continuous flow (he called itjlOYI' production) which is an important building block for lean production. His flow production concept was best exemplified by his car assembly line at Highland Park. In this line, vehicles traveled along a moving conveyor setting a constant pace for assembly operations. In 21 order to feed the main line he had to organize feeder processes in a way that approximated cellular manufacturing, where components were assembled in areas of continuous flow. Toyota would later take note of these practices and integrate them into their own production philosophy. Some of Ford's practices have even been described as approximating lean production within an emerging mass production system (Womack et ai., 1990; Dennis, 2007). Ford's accomplishments were revolutionary for the times. Ford's mass production system increased productivity by fine-tuning the division of labor, decreasing capital expenses through large size batching, and infrequent changeover times. Standardized work practices were another major component of the success of the Ford system. Standardized work at Ford subscribed to the "one best way" philosophy pioneered by W. Taylor. Taylor took the responsibility for work procedures out of the hands of the operators and mandated that the industrial engineers would henceforth design the work. Here again Ford helped to lay the groundwork for a lean approach. Toyota would later adopt standardized work, but not as a static approach. Instead, at Toyota, standardized work involves continuously improving work procedures mainly with the help of the people on the assembly line (Liker, 2004). These were the tenets of Ford's mass production system that at the beginning of the twentieth century were on their way to displacing the traditional craft approach to vehicle production (Dennis, 2007). In so doing, Ford was making industrial history by making cars relatively affordable while providing higher paying jobs to low skilled labor. Ford's mass production system was so successful that it essentially became the benchmark for vehicle production in the first half of the twentieth century in North America and Europe. Automotive industrialists visited from all over the world to see Ford's mass production system, including Toyota (Womack et ai., 1990). 22 The Beginnings of Lean Production Mass production remained unchallenged until about the 1960s when a new production system, pioneered by Toyota, started to increase its market share at the expense of the American big three (Womack et aI., 1990). The post-war 1950s was a time of economic hardship in Japan characterized by limited access to capital funds and impOliation of goods. The Toyota motor company, who had been put to work assembling military trucks by the Japanese wartime government, was now returning to its core business of manufacturing civilian vehicles. In a bid to study America's successful automotive industry, Eji Toyoda visited Ford's Rouge Plant in Detroit in 1950. What he saw there was impressive. Neveliheless, Eji Toyota was clever enough to understand that mass production was wholly unsuited for Japan's post war reality. Not only was Japan's car market smaller than America's, it was also more diverse in its needs. Furthermore, bOlTowing capital in the quantities necessary to finance a mass production operation would not have been possible as post-war Japan was cash strapped. Right from the stmi, Toyota's operating principles were forged in an environment marked by extreme scarcity. Toyota recognized that in order to produce cars for its domestic market it would have to do more with less. It needed to take a radically different approach from what Eji Toyoda observed at Ford (Liker, 2004). Furthelmore, Japan's economic situation along with Toyota's own cash flow problems were of such a magnitude that Toyota saw itself forced to ask for one qumier of its workers to retire. This move resulted in a strike that would eventually result in a deal where Toyota signed-up to secure employment for its remaining staff. Toyota would now have to devise a survival strategy that hinged on getting the most from its remaining resources: namely modest capital assets and a permanent work force. 23 The Objective of a Lean Production System After the strike of 1950, Toyota would be guided by one overarching objective: to eliminate all waste while producing exactly what the customer. wants (Liker, 2004; Dolcemascolo, 2006). All other effo11s in the Toyota Production System would support this objective. Taiichi Olmo, former Chief Engineer at Toyota and architect of the Toyota Production System, identified seven wastes of manufacturing that the Toyota Production System would seek to el iminate. The elimination of these wastes is the basis of the guidel ines for implementing lean improvements in value streams. These wastes are reported by Dolcemascolo (2006, p. 4): 1. Overproduction 2. Transpo11ation 3. Unnecessary inventory 4. Inappropriate processing 5. Waiting 6. Excess Motion 7. Defects 24 Jidoka: A First Pillar of the Toyota Production System The fact is that Ohno was not staliing from scratch III his quest to match Ford's productivity. In addition to being inspired by Ford's continuous flow invention, Ohno was drawing on the ideas of his Toyota predecessors. Most notably, Ohno would eventually integrate Jidoka as one of the pillars of the Toyota Production system. The concept of Jidoka, or automation with intelligence, was in fact pioneered by Sakichi Toyoda, Eji's uncle in the late 1800s when Toyoda was in the business of fabricating looms for the textile industry (Mass & Robertson, 1996). This concept was a great technological leap as well as a philosophical tour- de-force. Essentially, when a thread broke in the weaving process, the loom was not allowed to go on producing defective material (waste). This became the original instance of Jidoka. Just-in-Time: A Second Pillar of the Toyota Production System The other pillar of the Toyota Production System, Just-in-Time (lIT), came from Japanese observations of American supermarkets during the early visits of Taiichi Ohno in the year 1956 (Liker, 2004). The Japanese observed that supermarket shelves were easily replenished in the US. When the product was below a certain level, this would trigger re- stocking of the item. There was only enough stock on hand to supply to the immediate customers. The significance of JIT was that it was integrated into the Toyota Production System in the form of Kanban tools. These Kanban tools are the signaling apparatus that allows a pull system to exist (Jones & Womack, 2002). This is completely different from the mass production approach of having multiple orders sent simultaneously to multiple manufacturing locations in the production process. In a JIT operation, an upstream process only produces when a downstream is asking for a unit of production. This simpler and more efficient solution to satisfy demand is at the heart of pull production. 25 The Role of Standardization in the Toyota Production System While JIT and Jidoka are known as the pillars of the Toyota Production System, the foundation of the Toyota Production System consists of standardization and stability (Dennis, 2007). Like in the mass production system, standardization ensures that work is carried out in a predictable and well thought-out manner. Unlike in the mass production system, in the Toyota Production System, the purpose of standards is not to impose a static way of doing things. The opposite is in fact true (Nicholas & Avi, 2006). In the Toyota Production System, standards exist so they can be continuously improved. Through Kaizen sessions, a cross-functional team gets together to target improvements based according to strategic company direction (lmai, 1997). The purpose of a Kaizen session is primarily to eliminate waste by making incremental improvement to processes. The intimate knowledge held by workers is critical to the success of Kaizen sessions. The Role Stabilization in the Toyota Production System In the lean system, even before there can be standardization there must be stability (Dennis, 2007). The Toyota Production System emphasizes the importance of a stable environment. Without a stable environment, any lean improvements would be swept away in the chaos of clutter, unpredictable breakdowns, and material fluctuations. Several key disciplines were integrated into the lean production system by Ohno to reinforce stability. 5-S, for example, is a visual management tool that is meant to eliminate clutter and helps to see what is out of place (Gapp, Fisher, & Kobayashi, 1998). In 5-S, there is a place for everything, and everything has its place. The power of 5-S comes from the fact that it is a visual tool: it can provide an assessment at a glance. A person can see immediately if their environment is out of place because a 5-S'ed environment has visual markers for the storage location of things. Most 26 importantly, 5-S makes underlying problems apparent so they can be addressed. In this respect, 5-S is also a star1ing point for discovering and solving problems. A discipline meant to prevent unforeseen downtime is Total Productive Maintenance, or TPM (Black & Hunter, 2003). In a Total Productive Maintenance environment, workers themselves take responsibility for performing basic maintenance on the equipment they operate on a daily basis. This seemingly small contribution from the operators makes a big difference on the reliability of the equipment and most importantly to the overall stability of the operations. Breakdowns do not occur as often and operators can concentrate on adding value to the product instead of dealing with downtime due to unreliable equipment. Lastly, the practice of heijunka as a stabilizing discipline helps to level the demand on production (Liker, 2004; Rother & Shook, 1999). Firstly, the production mix is leveled to avoid making one large batch of one pali followed by another large batch of another pal1. Batching ultimately leads to hidden quality issues. In a lean operation, it is preferable to mix the type of pal1s produced by running small batches more frequently. Heijunka also means stabilizing the volume thus avoiding spikes in production. Instead of making the number of parts exactly as requested in the daily release schedule, the manufacturer should use historical demand data in order to make a daily average number of pa11s while keeping a standard inventory of pm1s. 27 At the Heart of the Toyota Production System At the heaIt of the Toyota Production System, there is one important idea: that people make all the difference. Through their creativity and their engagement, workers provide the driving force that sustains lean manufacturing (Dennis, 2007). Unlike in the mass production system, lean manufacturing personnel are involved in making decisions about the processes that they operate. In fact, the Toyota philosophy is to push down the responsibility for improving processes. Not only are plant workers encouraged to paIticipate in decision-making, they are expected to do so. Through process kaizens, associates engage in waste reduction, problem solving, and cost savings. Employee suggestion programs, for example, are a common way for employees to be involved in the improvement of the company. Thus in a lean production environment, all employees, even those doing repetitive work, are expected to think critically about their work and contribute to the continuous improvement of work standards. For this reason, some have called the Toyota Production System the Thinking Production System (Liker, 2004). Value Stream Mapping Value stream mapping was originated by Mike Rother and John Shook in collaboration with James Womack (Womack, 2006). Rother and Shook's value stream map idea was based on a similar a technique used by Toyota called in/ormation and materials jlovv diagrams. In configuring value stream maps, Rother and Shook intended to capture process information, materials flow, and information flow for a given product family. Although value stream maps were developed within the context of the automotive industry, they have become popular in other fields such as health care and the service sector. 28 The value stream mapping process begins with a map of the current state. The current state should faithfully depict the operations as they are happening at the present time (Rother & Shook, 1999). Both value and non-value added steps are shown in, a value stream map. Information flows also appear and are considered just as important as material flows. Icons are used to depict processes, material flows, and information flows. In addition, part accumulations in the fOlm of WIP, inventories, and safety stocks also appear in the value stream. Special alTOWS are used to depict "pull" or "push" production. In addition to icons, value stream maps also record lean metrics inside data boxes located beneath process icons. Data boxes typically include cycle times, changeover times, and travel distances. The types of metrics used to populate the data boxes are chosen according to the specifics of the value stream being mapped and the industry under consideration. In general, a timeline is also plotted along the bottom of the value stream to track metrics used for cumulative quantities such as total lead time, total travel distance, and total value added time. These cumulative quantities help to characterize the value stream and serve as a baseline for later comparison. The power of value stream mapping comes from its usefulness in integrating and representing all the important elements of the lean enterprise (Tapping, Luyster, & Shuker, 2002). Once the current state value stream map has been drawn, improvement oppo11unities can now be identified in a visual manner in conjunction with an assessment of the metrics. With respect to improving the current state value stream, Rother and Shook (1999) take the view that the main objective in a lean enterprise is simply for any process to only make what the next downstream process requires, within the sho11est lead-time, at the highest quality, and at the lowest cost. To attain this lean objective, they identified the following lean principles for achieving a lean future state value stream map (Rother & Shook, 1999, p. 44) 1. Produce to the takt time 2. Develop continuous flow wherever possible 3. Use supermarkets where continuous flow does not extend upstream 4. Send the customer schedule to only one production process: the pacemaker 5. Level the production mix 6. Create pull by releasing consistent increments of work at the pacemaker process 7. Develop the ability to make every part every day. (p.44) Extended Value Stream Mapping 29 The extended value stream map goes a step further. In the extended value stream map, the flow of value is mapped from the supplying facilities through to the customer's facility (Womack & Jones, 2002). Transportation between supplying facilities and transpOliation to the customer's facility is considered. A closed loop supply network is formed with product moving down stream and demand moving upstream. The concept of extended value stream mapping does not require the practitioner to map the supply chain back to the extraction of raw materials from the ground. For practical purposes, the extended value stream map can be limited to the number of suppliers that are useful to the value stream manager (Drickhamer, 2003). Just as in facility value stream mapping, extended value stream mapping stalis with a representation of the CUlTent state. Since the flow of materials and information between facilities is the main consideration in extended value stream mapping, the focus of lean improvements shifts to addressing issues at interfaces between facilities. These include minimizing transpOliation between facilities and minimizing inventories of finished goods (Jones & Womack, 2002). In order to achieve the goal of a lean extended value stream, Jones and Womack (2002, p.43) proposed the following guidelines: 30 1. Produce at a rate that is consistent with the customer' s takt time 2. Keep minimal inventory 3. Minimize the number of transport links 4. Minimize the amount of information processing while ensuring clarity of available information 5. Minimize the lead time to deliver a product to the customer 6. Changes made to improve the extended value stream map should ideally have no associated cost or at worst have very little associated cost Extended Value Stream: Future States When making improvements to an extended value stream, the very first step is to address the implementation of lean production in the individual facilities (Jones & Womack, 2002). Building a lean supply chain staris from the bottom up. Any company in the supply chain that is not prepared to implement lean within its own facility will be of little help in sustaining an extended value stream. The term future state I, therefore, describes the state of the supply chain when all suppliers have convelied to lean production within their own facilities. Future state II, on the other hand, deals with transportation and communications links between facilities. In their book Seeing the Whole, Jones and Womack (2002) recommend direct transportation links between upstream suppliers and downstream customers, instead of intermediate warehousing or cross-dock facilities. Moreover, just as with value stream mapping within a single facility, it is recommended that suppliers and customers be linked by a kanban type of information flow meant to establish a pull system between upstream suppliers and downstream customers. These are analogous to kanban loops within a facility. For instance, 31 large once-a-week batch loads should be replaced by milk runs whose transportation loops connect several facilities. Before achieving a Future state II, suppliers and customers must work cooperatively toward a lean extended value stream. It is critically important that suppliers and customers strive toward what Dolcemascolo (2006, p. 39) refers to as an "open book policy". Suppliers and customers need to disclose oppOliunities for improvements. Ultimately, this means cost information may also have to be shared in order to select lean improvement projects that make sense for all. For example, if a supplier is buying raw material at a high price, but the customer can negotiate a lower price, then there is obviously an oppOliunity for improvement. Without disclosure of costs, this simple extended value stream improvement could not happen. This open book policy then leads to the possibility of re-drawing the extended value stream map on a collaborative footing. Only then can extended value stream maps be truly optimized. Beyond future state II, there is one last type of future state called the ideal state (Jones & Womack, 2002). In the ideal state, the overriding principle is to compress the value stream as much as possible while bringing the value stream closer to the end customer. This literally means bringing production operations geographically closer together as well as closer to the customer. This is similar to including all operations within a single workcell. Compressing the extended value stream and moving it closer to the customer, however, has to be balanced against the possibility that the customer may be located in a high cost region. In this case, moving operations may be undesirable due to labor costs in the high cost region. Unless new labor saving technologies can be used, moving to all operations to a high cost region cannot be a foregone conclusion. High local labor costs may well justify keeping supplier operations in a 32 lower cost region. Striking this balance represents a major improvement opportunity for the extended value stream. Cooperation in Extended Value Streams Sharing the costs of investments is discussed in the literature as an element of extended value stream improvement that is sometimes necessary. The concept is simple. A supplier sells a product to a customer for a profit, despite the existence of waste in supplier's pOliion of the extended value stream. In theory, value stream improvements should not cost anything to implement (Tapping et aI., 2002). In practice, however, extended value stream improvements can often involve significant changes to manufacturing locations and equipment and therefore investments may be required. It is unlikely that a supplier will pay for these changes despite a positive return on investment. If the value stream improvements disproportionately benefit the customer rather than the supplier, it becomes even more unlikely that the supplier will make such investments. In this scenario, the customer will need to assist the supplier in making the necessary changes. Jones & Womack (2002) characterize this collaboration as the need to have the "winners compensate the losers" (p.73). This suggests that extended value stream thinking should occur early in the development of plant operations to avoid in-eversible non-lean extended value streams. It also suggests that changing economic conditions, like currency fluctuations, fuel price increases, and labor costs, should prompt the periodic review of extended value stream maps. Extended value stream mapping, therefore, provides a visual summary of how value travels between supplying facilities into the customer's facility. In order to implement lean production in the extended value stream it is necessary to have lean implemented in the individual locations first. Using the principles developed in the Toyota Production System, 33 which seeks to eliminate waste, a lean future state for the extended value stream map can be achieved. The last step in improving the extended value stream is to consider the possibility of compressing the extended value stream and bringing it closer to the customer. Cooperation between customer and suppliers is critical to realizing and Ideal State. 34 Chapter III: Methodology The purpose of this study was to implement lean improvements in the manufacturing operations of aluminum frames supplied by Framex Mexico to Universal's Michigan assembly plant. Universal required that Framex implement a costs savings within six months of its original request. Cost savings resulting from product changes were out of the question since Universal wanted to carryover the frame design into the new model year - also because of cost savings. This meant that process, logistics, and manufacturing locations all needed to be taken into consideration when Framex was investigating possible lean improvements. The methodology prescribed by Jones and Womack (2002) was adopted because it addressed the specific areas where Framex had to find cost savings. This chapter will identify the subject of the study in terms of an extended value stream. It will also identify value stream maps as the instrument used to collect data and analyze the extended value stream. Next, this chapter will demonstrate how lean principles discussed in the literature were used to generate improvement ideas for the extended value stream. Finally, an ideal state extended value stream map will be created by working through future states I and II, according to the methodology al1iculated by Jones & Womack (2002) in Seeing the Whole. 35 Subject of the Study The subject of the study was the extended value stream consisting of the Framex manufacturing facility located in Mexico and the transportation of aluminum frames up to Universal's pick-up truck assembly plant in Michigan. At the outset of the study, Framex was purchasing aluminum coils that were stamped into components PaIts (brackets, gussets, cross members, etc.) and then were welded into frame sub-assemblies. The three sub-assemblies were then bolted together and finally e-coated for corrosion protection. The frames assemblies were then put into containers and shipped via truck over to Laredo, Texas where a cross-docking operation took place. The containers were removed from the truck and transferred onto a train that would transpolt the frames the rest of the way to Michigan. Instrumentation The instrument used to study the extended value stream under investigation was the value stream map. Value stream maps are used to provide a visual representation of the value stream. Processes, material flows, and information flows appear on the value stream map. Extended value stream maps also include transpOlt link infOlmation as well as information about geographic locations. In addition, value stream maps also contain information about the takt time that sets the production pace for the value stream under investigation. In this study, the takt time is constant. Improvements to the extended value stream map had to conform to a constant takt time of 63.4 seconds, per appendix A. The value stream map is also used to collect lean metrics data, which quantifies the elements in a value stream. For example, value added and non-value added times were recorded for each process. Because it is a visual instrument, a value stream map is well suited for quick visual reference and efficient analysis. Furthermore, value stream maps also have a temporal 36 element. In general, a value stream will be represented either in a current state map or in a future state map. Extended value stream mapping methodology makes use of several future states: future state I, future state II, and finally the ideal state value stream map. Data Collection The following lean metrics were selected in order to establish a method for evaluating and comparing the lean states of the extended value streams: 1. Lead times (days) 2. Value added time (seconds) 3. Process cycle efficiency (percentage) 4. Raw materials inventory (days) 5. Work in progress inventory (days) 6. Finished goods inventory (days) 7. Transportation distance (miles) 8. Transp0l1ation time (days) Standard data taken from work instructions was used to populate the value stream data boxes. Cross-functional meetings that included production supervisors, logistics personnel , project managers, and sales personnel were held. The purpose of the meetings was to plan and implement the costs savings. Each member was responsible for validating the data obtained from documented sources. Once the data was compiled, the extended value stream maps were populated by entering the data into the data boxes in the value stream maps. 37 Data Analysis The lean principles discussed in the literature provided guidance in identifying lean improvements to both facility and extended value streams. Working meetings were held to bring together the team with the aim of bringing the extended value stream in line with lean principles as stated in Seeing the Whole (Jones & Womack, 2002). The following lean principles for extended value streams were used to drive improvements at every step of the way toward the ideal state: 1. Produce at a rate that is consistent with the customer's takt time 2. Keep minimal inventory 3. Minimize the number of transpOli links 4. Minimize the amount of information processing while assuring the clarity of available information 5. Minimize the lead-time to deliver a product to the customer 6. Changes made to improve the extended value stream map should ideally have no associated cost or at worst have very little associated cost The future state principles used to step through the progression of future state I, future state II, and finally the ideal state were: 1. Future state 1: implement lean production within the individual facilities 2. Future state II: install pull between facilities & install loops between facilities 3. Ideal state: geographically compress the value stream Current state analysis (future state I). The analysis of the CUlTent state extended value stream map was conducted using lean principles. The analysis of the current state began immediately with a focus on improving transportation links i.e. working toward a future state II. 38 This is because the Framex facility had essentially implemented lean production. Therefore, in this study the CUlTent state and future state I are the same. The first step in the analysis of the current state was to create an extended value stream map. This allowed the team to locate the areas where the value stream was not lining-up with lean principles. The following key elements were identified as essential to building a current state extended value map: The transp011ation link between the aluminum supplier and Framex The Framex Mexico facility The transp011ation link between Framex Mexico and the inter-modal (truck-to-train) cross-dock at Laredo, TX The transp011ation link between the cross-dock at Laredo and the Universal assembly plant in Michigan The current state extended value stream was consequently mapped with these elements as shown on Figure 1. Lean metrics data for each of the elements was obtained in order to complete the value stream map. The cross-functional team members obtained the data by consulting and validating process documentation. It was then handed over to the project manager to populate the value stream map with the data. Obtaining the lean metrics data for the Framex facility, however, required an extra step. A separate facility value stream map for Framex Mexico (Figure 2) had to be created. Once again the data for the facility value stream map was provided by the cross functional team. Once the facility value stream map was created, the aggregate lean metrics were used in data box for Framex Mexico in the extended value stream map (Figure 1). The facility and the extended value stream maps were analyzed using lean principles. 39 The analysis yielded several key observations. The facility value stream map for Framex (Figure 2) showed that the value added time of 188 seconds relative to the lead-time of23.0123 days resulted in an extremely low process cycle efficiency of 0.0194%. Looking fUliher upstream within the Framex value stream, the team felt that the safety stocks of raw materials (10 days) and finished goods (10 days) were too high and that an oPPOliunity existed to improve process cycle efficiency by reducing inventory. However, getting rid of the safety stock would require management buy-in. The safety stocks were put in place to deal with unforeseen supply problems and rush orders that had occurred in the past year. The extended value stream map in Figure 1 made it clear that the transpOliation link between Framex and Universal had become a problem. In response to urgent calls from Universal, Framex had to fly material to Michigan six times in the last year. This transpOliation link included trucking, a cross-dock, and then rail transpOli. The team felt that the transpOliation lin1e between Framex and Universal was too unreliable and time consuming. The lead-time for that transpoliation link was 14 days, which was perceived by all to be essentially inventory on the road. The cross-dock in particular had been a source of delays at customs. When the extended value stream was evaluated, the value added time of 118 seconds vs. the total lead-time for the extended value stream of 37 days resulted in a process cycle efficiency of 0.0121 %, worse than for the facility value stream. ..."
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42 Future state II analysis. To redraw the extended value stream map (Figure 3), the general concept that the team pursued was moving away from using rail transport and instead shipping finished goods by truck directly from Mexico to Michigan. Cutting out the cross dock was in line with the principle of reducing the number of transport links. Two transpOli links were in fact eliminated: the cross-dock and the rail transport. The elimination of the cross-dock would also allow a pull system to be established between facilities: another aim of lean extended value streams. This is shown by a transpOli loop in the extended value stream map in Figure 3. This transport loop, with a transpOli time of seven days, was expected to eliminate the need for expedited shipments. Shipping via trucks, however, posed a brand new problem. Trucks would be about two times more expensive than shipping by rail on a per frame basis. The solution that the team came up with was to increase containerization density. In other words, if the same trailer could take twice as many palis then there would be no cost penalty for using truck transpOli. UnfOliunately, the finished goods containers were owned by Universal and they did not agree to make changes to the finished goods containers. The finished goods containers had to conform to standard sizing for material handling purposes. Therefore, future state II was conceived using existing finished goods racks while shipping twice as many trucks per day. It was recognized that this was a sub-optimal solution to the density issue and a permanent solution would have to be found in the ideal state, prior to implementation. The future state II with new trucking arrangement is shown on the extended value stream map in Figure 3. Future state II was not implemented. However, it was a necessary intermediate step toward the ideal state. 43 Neveliheless, moving away from rail transpOJi was step in the right direction because of the smaller amount of inventory on the road at any given time. Trucks would now only take seven days to make it to Michigan vs. the 14 days using intermodal transpOJi. This improvement in lead-time was expected to increase the process cycle efficiency of the extended value stream. The inventory of finished goods at Framex Mexico facility (Figure 4) could now be potentially decreased by a corresponding seven days at the facility i.e. from 10 days to three days. However, management at Framex Mexico plant was not in favor of going to three days of inventory and settled on six days of inventory as a precautionary measure. This decrease in finished goods inventory down to six days at the Framex facility is shown on Figure 4. .." ~ . "" '-v 'TJ ;; 3 (1) ~ C :J < (1) ""1 V> : 2' 2 eli V> :;; co (1) x co :J a. (1) a. < '" c (1) ~ ""1 (1) '" 3 3 : -0 10 days .ay Framex - Universal Future State II Extended Value Stream Map - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - - - - - - , TllInsport Time:::: 0.0 days RM= 0.0 da" W1P =3 0 days FG:::: 6 .0 days '2)(JOAY w Distance Traveled: 2225 ml. Transport Time: 7 days ---------lIiiIij Unlve.sal Pickup Assembly Plant M.USA travel 0-0--0 v \{ V-\ Lead T1 me:::: 26.0 days VAfT = 118 seconds peE:::: 0.0172% I";:>lant Time = 19 days Transport Time:::: 7.0 days RM= 10.0 days WIP =9.0 days FG= 7.0 days traveled:::: 2225.0 miles ~ ~ ..." ALUMNUM COWANY
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VI 46 Ideal state analysis. In the ideal state map as shown on Figure 5, the cross-functional team concentrated on the principle of moving the value stream closer to the customer while being mindful of cost implications. The obvious idea initially proposed by the team was to manufacture the aluminum frames in Canada and then ship them to Michigan. After all, the Canadian facility was already shipping steel frames to Universal. This idea however was considered not feasible for several reasons. First, labor costs in Canada would be several times higher than in Mexico and given that welding operations were labor intensive, this was considered as not feasible by the team. Furthermore, the welding equipment at Framex Mexico was a shared asset with other production programs and it could not leave Mexico. To complicate matters fUliher, the welding equipment in Canada had the same problem: it was strictly for steel applications and could not be converted, as it too was shared with other production programs. Moving the entire Mexican operations to Canada, or to the US for that matter, was an even more remote proposition. The break-through solution that the cross-functional team proposed was to take advantage of some, but not all, of the existing capabilities in Canada. In paliicular, the operations that Framex Canada could undeliake were the final bolting assembly and the e- coating operations. This would allow sub-assemblies to be shipped in high-density WIP bins to Framex Canada for final assembly prior to being shipped to Universal in Michigan. Since the design of the aluminum frame and the steel frame where only slightly different, the final bolting assembly station in Canada could be retooled for a very modest cost so it could process both designs. The business case showed that the cost of retooling the bolting station could easily be recovered from the cost savings. The e-coating operations could also be done at Framex Canada with no tooling or equipment changes. All that was needed was a small readjustment of the 47 chemistry in the e-coating process to accommodate coating both steel and aluminum frames. Both bolting and e-coating operations were highly automated in Canada so labor costs were not an issue. Therefore, in the ideal state, optimization of the extended value stream meant that only final assembly and e-coating would be done at Framex Canada (Figure 7), while stamping and welding would remain at Framex Mexico (Figure 6). This is how the project team was able to comply with the lean principle for extended value streams of geographically "compressing" the value stream. 48 Moving the final two operations to Framex Canada also addressed the issue of containerization density. Now Framex Mexico was a supplier to Framex Canada lined by a pull loop (see Figure 5). Framex Mexico would be shipping welded sub-assemblies instead of finished goods. These smaller sub-assemblies could be nested to increase containerization densities by more than 200%. The cost of transportation via trucks would be more than compensated by the increase in containerization densities. However, in order to ship nested sub- assemblies from Mexico to Canada, new WIP containers to be owned by Framex were needed. The business case showed that, although expensive, new WIP containers would pay for themselves. However, the team concluded that the burden of the investment should be shared with Universal. The costs of the new WIP container were discussed between Universal purchasing and Framex sales. It was determined that a net cost savings for the overall extended value stream was achievable and Universal agreed to compensate Framex for the costs of the new WIP containers. This agreement made it possible to move forward with the implementation of the ideal state. This solution had a positive effect on the value stream map for Framex Mexico since no finished goods stock would be needed there in the ideal state as shown in Figure 6. Instead, the team decided to keep a supermarket of aluminum sub-assemblies at Framex Canada in case of fluctuations in the supply of components from Framex Mexico. Framex - Universal Ideal State Extended Value Stream Map em Me" can ________ /JJlJllnum Company Me;.ico I I / ,,' ,.,. CANADA (Q\lTARIOJ
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Total err:: 24 seconds VCllue Add: 12 seconds NVA - 12 seconds Distance Traveled: 20 It 0"" 5.0 d,y I S I 50.0 seeonds 24.0 seeonds Dislance Traveled: 300 ft. 24.0 seconds 12.0 seconds I 2.0 days I Customer Dem;,nd: 100000 plecos perVo"r (Ta1o:J Time 63.4 seconds) Lead Time:: 7.0 days l IVA IT:: 36.0 seconds RM:: 5.0 days WIP :: 0.0 dB'1S FG:: 2.0 days peE:: 0.0195% VI 52 Limitations of the Methodology The value stream maps that were used did not integrate the business case analysis. This was a significant limitation of this methodology. In this study, the project manager was in charge of leading the cross-functional team in the development of value stream maps. On the other hand, sales were in charge of the business case analysis. Sales used a spreadsheet to keep track of the business case. As a result, two types of documents were used to communicate how the cost savings were achieved. At times, this caused some confusion. Most people knew how to interpret one or the other of the documents - not both. Another limitation of the methodology was that value stream maps display single values for lean metrics as opposed to statistical distributions. The accuracy of lead times for shipping, for example, was questioned many times by management. The historical data had simply not been collected in a disciplined way to provide the confidence in the data that was sought. As a result, there was some risk that the ideal state would not materialize exactly as planned. NeveltheJess, the cross-functional team was confident that the ideal state was configured correctly and that the cost savings would be achieved successfully. Furthennore, the application of the methodology was limited by the fact that there was no time for anyone person to walk the full length of the value stream in order to confirm all of the lean metrics, as recommended by the literature. Especially with an extended value stream, this would have been very difficult to do. Instead, data was taken from documents such as standard work instlUctions, shipping records, and inventory logs. It was the responsibility of team members to validate their data contributions. 53 Finally, the idea of neatly developing the various future states in sequence, instead of in parallel, was not practical. The team felt that future states I, II, and the ideal state could be done in parallel. Often all three maps were worked on side-by-side. Fortunately, no one felt that the results were compromised by taking this approach. 54 Chapter IV: Results The purpose of this study was to implement lean improvements in the manufacturing operations of aluminum frames supplied by Framex to Universal. Framex is a frame manufacturer that operates out of Mexico and Canada. Universal is a major US vehicle manufacturer whose pick-up truck assembly plant is located in Michigan and buys frames from Framex. Universal requested that improvements be implemented within a period of six months resulting in a cost savings for Universal. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, the Framex cross-functional team employed an extended value stream mapping methodology guided by lean principles. First, a current state extended value stream map was constructed based on lean metrics obtained by the cross- functional team. Then, extended value stream maps were created for the future state II and for the ideal state. This chapter will address each of the three sub-problems presented at the beginning of this paper. First, the results of the current state extended value stream map will be presented. Next, the results of lean improvements will be shown in terms of the future state II and ideal state. Finally, the success of the implementation of the ideal state will be assessed by reporting to what extent the lean metrics materialized according to the proposed ideal state. The costs savings achieved will be repOlied. 55 Results of the Current State Extended Value Stream Map The first sub-problem consisted of establishing the CU1Tent state of Framex manufacturing and supply operations. This sub-problem was addressed by creating an extended value stream map (Figure 1) that connected Framex Mexico to its customer Universal located in Michigan. Lean metrics were collected based on what was actually happening in the value stream. The first row in Table 1 shows the lean metrics collected for the current state. Table I ReslIlls o/Exlellded Valli e Slreolll!lIIpro\'elll enIS Lean metrics Transport Transport Value Process Raw Finished distance Lead added c}c1e materials goods Transport Transport finished EVSM Stat e time time eflkiency inventory WlP inventory distarce times goods ( days) (sec.) (%) ( days) (days) (days) (miles) (days) (miles) Current State 37.0 118 0.0121 10 10 2225 14 2225 Future State 2 26.0 118 0.0172 10 6 2225 7 2225 Idea I State 22.5 118 0.0199 10 2 2450 7.5 126 Implemented 21.5 118 0.D208 10 3 2 2450 6.5 126 Noles. EVSM = Extended Value Stream Map. Transport distance = distance from Franl ex final shipping facility to Universal receiving plant. Transport time = transport ation time between Fr amex fina I shipping fac il ity to Universal receiving plant. In purchase contracts, transport of finished goods is paid by UniversaL See last two columns. time finished goods (days) 14 7 0.5 0.5 framex Universal Dail y Daily Transport Transport costs costs ($) ($) 0 7231 0 8900 4900 252 4900 252 56 For the current state in pa11icular, the ratio of the value added time (118 seconds) to total lead- time (37 days) resulted in a process cycle efficiency of 0.0121%. The lead-time of 37 days, which is inversely prop0l1ionai to the process cycle efficiency, breaks down into days of inventory and days of parts in transit. The inventory consisted of 10 days ofraw materials in the form of aluminum coils, three days of WIP in a supermarket of stamped components, and another 10 days of finished goods safety stock. FUl1hermore, the transp0l1ation time was made up of two days for trucking to Laredo, two days for the cross-docking operation, and still another 10 days of rail transp0l1 to Michigan. Results ofIdeal State Extended Value Stream Map The second sub-problem consisted in analyzing the current state and proposing changes that would improve transportation links and optimize manufacturing locations. The result was an ideal state extended value stream map as shown on Figure 5. This second sub-problem was addressed by re-configuring Framex as a regionally optimized supplier. This was done by first proposing a future state II extended value stream map that replaced intermodal shipping by a direct trucking route to Michigan. The resulting lean metrics for the future state II are shown in the second row in Table 1. The ideal future state integrated the transportation improvements, and took the final step toward an ideal state by proposing that the finishing operations and the shipping point be moved to Framex Canada. The improvements to the current state that resulted in a future state II involved the elimination of the cross-docking operation as well as rail transit. The decision was made to deliver finished goods via truck directly from Framex Mexico to the Universal assembly plant in Michigan. Direct trucking would now take seven days instead of the previous 14 days. The transp0l1ation time, and therefore the lead-time, was now decreased by seven days. The finished 57 goods inventory could have been reduced from 10 days down to three days but management decided to take a cautious approach that saw the finished goods inventory reduced to six days. The decrease in days of finished goods and days of transport resulted in a new lead-time of 26 days for future state II. The ratio of the value added time (118 seconds) to the new total lead- time (26 days) resulted in an improved process cycle efficiency of 0.0 172% for the future state II. The ideal state lean improvements involved reducing the number of trucks per day required to ship frames to Universal. This was achieved by shipping sub-assemblies instead of fully assembled finished frames. Framex Mexico became a supplier to Framex Canada who was now the new shipping point. The advantage of this was that nested sub-assemblies could be shipped in much higher densities from Framex Mexico to Framex Canada in new WIP containers. Framex Canada would continue to ship finished goods in Universal's standard size shipping containers. The results was that the twice a day trucking could be reduced to once per day trucking. This resulted in cutting the transportation costs down by half relative to future state II. The transpOltation time between the two Framex facilities remained at 7 days. A minor drawback resulted that 0.5 days would be necessary to ship finished goods between Framex Canada and Universal at a distance of 126 miles. The new shipping arrangement, however, had to be supported with final bolting and e- coating at Framex Canada. There was no longer a need to keep an inventory of finished goods in Mexico. That meant that the 6 days of finished goods that used to exist in Mexico were eliminated in favor of keeping only 2 days of finished goods inventory at Framex Canada. In order to deal with demand surges, management at Framex decided that raw materials that used to number 10 days at Framex Mexico would now be shared as five days of aluminum coils in 58 Mexico and five days of sub-assemblies in Canada. Figures 5 through 7 show the new raw materials aITangement at the Framex facilities while Table 1 shows a total of 10 days of raw material. The resulting ratio of value added time of 188 seconds to 22.5123 days lead-time resulted in an improved process cycle efficiency of 0.0199%. Results of the Lean Implementation The third sub-problem was to canyout the lean improvements and evaluate whether the implementation of the ideal state was successful. The final sub-problem was accomplished by fully implementing the ideal state extended value stream map. Three weeks were required to stabilize the lean metrics at the target levels of the ideal state. The resulting process cycle efficiency exceeded the planned value from ideal state extended value stream. One further improvement was made at the request of the plant Manager at Framex Canada. The plant manager believed that seven days of transport time could be improved. A call for bids was held in order to find a faster and more reliable transport company. Several companies were found that would guarantee shipments with only 6.5 days of transit time. One of these was chosen. Therefore, the new ratio of value added time of 118 seconds to the new total lead-time of 21.5 days now resulted in a process cycle efficiency of 0.0208%. The results were that the lean metrics were either met or exceeded during implementation. 59 As far as achieving a costs savings, Universal now was receiving pmis shipped from Framex Canada, which meant they only needed to pay for freight travelling 126 miles instead of 2225 miles. In the implemented state Framex was paying most of the transportation costs. However, because of high-density WIP bins, Framex could transport material more efficiently than Universal could in the current state. This resulted in a 29% cost savings for the overall extended value stream to be shared between Universal and Framex. Extended over the expected life of the program, the resulting cost savings was estimated at $2.5 million. A cost savings calculation for the extended value stream is shown in Appendix C. Even after Universal compensated Framex for their internal shipping costs increases, for WIP containers, and for modest retooling, Universal still achieved a large cost savings. Compensation was handled tlu'ough increased piece prices paid to Framex. 60 Chapter V: Discussion The purpose of this study was to implement lean improvements in the manufacturing operations of aluminum frames supplied by Framex to Universal. Universal requested that improvements be implemented within a period of six months resulting in a cost savings for Universal. Chapter I covered the economic and market conditions that drove Universal, the vehicle manufacturer, to seek cost reductions in the value stream that linked its pick-up truck assembly plant to Framex. Chapter II surveyed the literature relating to the development of the Toyota Production System and established the lean principles used in this paper. Chapter III explained the extended value stream mapping methodology used to produce lean changes to the Framex- Universal value stream. The analysis presented in chapter III resulted in a proposal for an ideal state extended value stream map, which was subsequently used as the standard for the implementation of the cost savings. The results of the implementation were presented in terms of lean metrics in Chapter IV. This chapter will first restate the limitations of the study. It will then discuss the results and provide perspective on the findings of this paper. The conclusions will highlight the major achievements of this study. Finally, recommendations for improving the practical applications of lean principles to extended values streams will be made. 61 Limitations of the Study In this study, the value stream being investigated for improvements and cost savings was selected by the customer. This means no analysis was undertaken to determine which of the possible product families would be the best suited for value stream improvements. The extended value stream that involved the supply of aluminum frames to Universal's Michigan assembly plant was identified as the subject of the study. Other value streams that existed between these two companies were not addressed in this paper. A firm time restriction existed in this study. The changes and improvements had to be completed within a six-month period between March and August of 2008. This end date coincided with the rollout of the new model year. The new model year was not a complete redesign of the pick-up truck. In fact, many pat1s, such as the frames, required no changes. FUl1hermore, the implementation of lean production in the individual facilities was outside the scope of this study. Changes within facilities were only unde11aken if they were meant to supp0l1 improvements to the extended value stream. This was the case with inventory reduction. This was also the case with the retooling of the bolting station at Framex Canada. The facilities were already using pull production and one-piece-flow so this limitation did not affect the results. The details of the business case were not presented. The logic behind the business case was driven largely by the extended value stream improvements. In some cases, however, the value stream had to change in order to ensure that the business case remained positive. This was the case when the team realized it would have to increase shipping density to compensate for increase transp0l1ation costs. 62 A limitation that was not recognized at the outset as being significant was the fact that value stream maps did not contain costs data. This limitation became apparent when extended value stream map changes were presented to management. Management was consistently looking for business case information to justify the value stream changes. The lack of a side-by- side presentation of costs slowed down the initial buy-in for the proposed changes. Development of the Current State Extended Value Stt"eam Map The creation of the current state extended value stream map increased the cross- functional team's awareness of its supply operations. Before getting together to create sketches of the value stream, the flow of value from Framex to Universal was unclear. Once the lean data was collected and mapped on the value stream map, the team became more confident in proposing improvement ideas and more skillful at identifying opportunities. Extended value stream mapping helped the team to see the whole operation and understand how it could be improved. In this study, the team approach to value stream mappIng was crucial. Each team member was able to bring specialized knowledge to the table in order to ensure that the value stream maps were representative of what was actually happening in the plant and in the logistics routes. The creation of the current state map was pivotal in terms of getting the cross-functional team to speak the language of value stream mapping. On the other hand, the sales function was also a key success factor because sales people were the link to customer cooperation and cost sharing. 63 Development of the Ideal State Extended Value Stream Map Future state II. The creation of the future state II value stream map was straightforward. Using the lean principle of reducing transportation links led the team to the logical conclusion that the cross docking operation should be eliminated. Doing this would allow a geographically extended pull loop to be implemented between Framex and Universal. FUlihermore, the team felt that 14 days of transport time was excessive. Even before the value stream maps were drawn, this transportation link was known for causing unnecessary delays. Ideal state. The creation of the ideal state map began with a challenge that arose from the future state II map. Although the removal of the cross-dock resulted in decreasing the transport time from 14 days to seven days, the problem remained that two trucks per day would now be required to meet the daily requirements. Two trucks per day had the effect of increasing transport costs relative to the current state. This increase in transport costs did not fit with the expectations set by the literature that states that lean improvements should not incur costs. The team concluded that lean metrics and costs needed to be looked at concurrently because improving a single individual lean metric on its own would not automatically lead to overall lower costs. The team accepted the challenge to find a way to turn the transportation improvements into a costs savings. This is how the idea of increasing the shipping density came up. The team concluded that the only way to increase shipping density was to ship sub-assemblies instead of full assemblies and then to have the parts assembled as close to the customer as possible. This is how Framex Canada was drawn into the extended value stream map. 64 The way the future state II scenario naturally evolved into an ideal state was a pleasant surprise to the team. This development confirmed that the theory developed in Seeing the Whole (Jones & Womack, 2002) cOlTelated well with real life and that the team was on the right track. With the implementation of increased densities, the transportation costs were now lower by about 29% relative to the current state as shown on Table 1. Since Framex Canada was the new ship point, keeping a finished goods safety stock in Mexico no longer made sense. The lean principle of compressing the value stream in order to bring it closer to the customer motivated the team to keep sub-assemblies in Canada in the form of raw materials. That way they could be used to respond quickly to a surge in demand. The literature also proved correct regarding the need for cooperation between supplier and customer. The cost of WIP containers represented a significant investment that Framex could not take-on alone. It was in Universal's best interest to compensate Framex for the cost of WIP containers and for its increased transpOli costs. This ensured that costs savings were implemented. The team member from sales was pivotal in negotiating this cost recovery from the customer. This also showed that in general, improvements to the extended value stream may require significant investments to be recovered through costs savings. 65 Implementation of the Ideal State Extended Value Stream Map It took the team less than one month to work through the various stages of value stream mapping and arrive at the ideal state extended value stream map. By April 2008, value stream maps, business cases, and timelines had been firmed. Procurement and design of the WIP containers and equipment modifications had been kicked-off. In August when the changes had to be rolled-out, there was still some unceliainty as to whether the actual implementation would match with the ideal state. In the first couple of weeks after rollout, the target lean metrics were not immediately realized. It took about three weeks to reach the target metrics. In the case of transportation, a last minute improvement opportunity was recognized by management whereby the transportation time from Mexico to Canada was decreased by one day, resulting in yet another improvement in the process cycle efficiency. 66 Conclusions The results of this study were a success from the point of view of lean metrics as well as cost savings. All parties involved benefited from this success. The process cycle efficiency in the implemented state, i.e. the time spent on doing value added work, increased by 72% relative to the current state. This improvement was driven by the reduction in lead-time which itself was due to transp0l1ation improvements and bringing the extended value stream closer to the customer. Overall transp0l1ation costs decreased by 29%: from $7231 per day to $5152 per day. Since Universal only had to pay for finished goods transportation, their transportation costs dropped from $7231 to $252 per day. The cost savings achieved by Universal in this way were used to compensate Framex for their increase in transportation costs and for their investments. The costs saving generated by applying lean principles to this extended value stream over five years, the life of the program, were expected to be $2.5 million. The expected cost savings calculation is shown in Appendix C A win-win-win scenario occurred here. Framex was awarded a higher piece price to cover a share of the cost savings plus investment recovery. Universal's operating costs decreased as result of buying frames at a lower total cost, including product and transportation costs. Perhaps most importantly, consumer benefitted because they could now get better value on their purchase of a new pick-up truck due to incentives supp0l1ed by the manufacturer's lower operating costs. Overall, the conclusions of this paper match with the outcomes predicted in the literature. Cooperation between Framex and Universal, including sharing in the cost savings, motivated all parties to work toward a leaner extended value stream. The process cycle efficiency increased at 67 each step of the value stream map development. The only major unforeseen development was the transpoliation cost increase in future state II that fortunately resulted in net transpoliation cost decrease in the ideal state. Recommendations The following recommendations are based on the lessons leamed during the planning and implementation of the extended value stream lean improvement. Center of knowledge. A value stream mapping team with specialized knowledge should be established in order to assist future improvements or costs savings exercises that require special knowledge of the application oflean principles to extended value stream. Value stream manager. Project managers should be trained as value stream managers and should be responsible for the continuous improvement of the value stream. In the automotive industry, project managers have unique cross-functional knowledge that would make them the ideal value stream manager. Executive management needs to support their role as value stream managers in order for this recommendation to be implemented successfully. Value stream continuous improvement. A standard set of lean metrics should be selected based on careful consideration of customer values and requirements. Then, a database should be established to store and maintain lean metrics. Periodic updates to the lean metrics should occur in order to support periodic reviews of extended value stream maps. This would be the basis for the continuous improvement of value stream maps. Value stream mapping up-front. Regional optimization using extended value stream mapping should also be considered before plant locations are built. 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Appendix A Takt Time Calculation Setup 'I Tlmeline 1 Graph 1 Available Work Time Hours Per Shift : Break Minutes Per Shift : Shifts Per Day: Da;'S Per "'l/eek: Days Per Month: Takt Time 8 40 5 20 Customer Demand --------- [IiJilllilll / IYear 4 t4l weeks Takt Time ----------- 63.4 [ seconds pieces / piece Display Format: [63 seconds G T akt Goal I Percentage Inventory Lead Time: [ Based on T akt Time 1 I Cancel I I Help ~ ___ ~ L ____ ~ OK 70 Appendix B Process Cycle Efficiency Sample Calculation For the implemented ideal future state ... PCE = VAT Implelllellted L dT' ea lme 118sec. PCEilllplelllell/(xl = 7 3333h 2 1. 5 days .' ours day 3600sec. hour 118sec. PCEilllplelllellttri = 7 3333h 3600 xl 00% 21 Sd . ours sec. . aysx x day hour PCEilllplelllellled = 0.0208% 71 Appendix C Expected Cost Saving Calculation For the extended value stream ... Cos tSa v ings Pr ogmlllLife = DailySavings x 5 years Cos/Savings Pr ograllll,ife = (TransporlalionCostscllrrelllSlale - TramporlalionCosts IclealSlale) X 5 years $7231 $5152 24 o days CoslSavtngsprogralllLife = (--- ) x 5years x -----"--- day day year $2079 24 o days CostSavtngs Pr ograllll,ife = ( ) x 5 years x -----"--- day year $2079 Cos/SavtngsPr ogralllLife = (---) x 1200days day CostSavings ProgralllLife = $2,494,800 72