Visually see your entire process flow using the language of Lean to learn to see and eliminate wastes.
Pre-programmed Lean Metrics so you don’t have to work late trying to write your own formulas.
Answer the question: How can we make only what we need when we need it?
Form a blueprint for Lean implementation to rally your team to eliminate wastes.
Instant on-line training for Lean concepts and techniques.
Easily customized Written in Excel with all of its familiar formulas and charts.
Professional deliverables easily stored, emailed, and shared.
Drill down to swim lane flowcharts and other related documents.
Import Old comparison data with the click of a button.
Inexpensive to easily share & collaborate.
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Look what is included:
The Value Stream Mapping Power Tool has pre-programmed Lean metrics that can be unhidden as needed:
Lead Time, Cycle Time, Takt Time…
Time Sum Lines
Process Capacity
Optimal Batch Size
Every Part Every Interval
Activity Ratio, % Value Add Ratio
Work Load Balancing Chart
Unit of measure conversions
New! Each process can have its own inventory unit of measure (e.g. one process makes wheels while another makes cars) – and everything is converted to a common unit of measure in the Time Sum Line
Switch at any time between working days, calendar days, weeks, or hours
Easily scales large or small
Drill down to swim lane flowcharts, Standard Work, Layout Diagrams, and other related documents
Add and remove processes with a single-click button
Hide/unhide rows
Easily handle multiple tiers of simultaneous processes
Print on any size printer or plotter supported by Excel
Written in Excel, so…
All the power of Excel
Supplement our pre-programmed metrics with your own user-defined calculations
Drag and drop easy Copy and paste shapes
Easily exchange data Hyperlinks, data links, PowerPoint…
Your people already own Excel
No proprietary software to buy or learn
No cumbersome import and export to and from Excel – “it is Excel”
Free Lean Starter Toolkit
Unlike entry-level drawing tools – one of the goals of the Lean Starter Toolkit is to educate. It comes not only with on-line training, but also free training videos, and even a free self-paced learning validation tool – to ensure that the learner has actually learned.
The free Lean Starter Toolkit includes the trial version of 2 of the most popular templates:
- Value Stream Mapping template
- 2Learn Value Stream Mapping – self-paced learning validation tool
And as a free gift for attending a free webinar, we will give you the trial version of their Value Stream Mapping Power Tool – that has ALL of the most popular lean metrics pre-programmed. The VSM-PowerTool has always been the single most popular template – because the calculation powers of Excel are so familiar and powerful.
“Once someone completes the 13-minute video to learn how to use Excel as a drawing tool – they will wonder why they ever bought Visio. Drawing is the easy part. Excel has all of the drawing capabilities of Visio, but Visio can’t do math. And once your managers get over being enamored with the pretty pictures, they are going to start asking the tough questions that are the entire reason for making a value stream map in the first place. ‘How much will we save? Why are we focusing on this instead of that?’ And that’s when people realize that their entry-level drawing tool doesn’t really answer the questions that a value stream map is intended to answer.”
If you are new to Excel or the Tools of Lean, we offer one of the largest collections of on-line training resources free during your trial period. Free online training is one of the strengths behind our product offerings. There are built in support features each and every time you open a document. So we encourage newcomers to use our free training if nothing else to start or expand your Lean Journey.
“We want people to know that many of our templates are just plain simple. In the past, we only gave away our most complex templates as trials, but now we’re giving some of the simple ones too. Our best prospect is someone that has already spent several late nights attempting to create a few of their own home-made templates, and can now truly appreciate how much time these save – and how much more professional the end results.”
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If you are new to Excel or the Tools of Lean, we offer one of the largest collections of ON-LINE TRAINING RESOURCES free during your trial period. This the strength behind our product offerings with built in support features each and every time you open a document. So don’t hesitate, use the training if nothing else to start or expand your Lean Journey.
Get answers to your questions
Start with the Sample and Help worksheets (in every Excel template)
View our free on-line trainings & demos
Join a free live webinar – held almost every Wednesday
Schedule a free 1-hour web private web conference for undivided attention to just your team
Call or email to take advantage of your free technical support during your trial period Please call during business hours for Nashville, Tennessee. Central Time Zone. GMT-6:00. You can use time & date to cross reference your local time.
Why not test drive the full working version?
There are over 150 more templates that you can try – many of which are easier to use than the trial templates. If you really want to make a thorough evaluation, you can test drive the full working version – with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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