eVSM Blog

Line Balancing with Digital VSM
This blog is based on a live webinar given by our guest presenter, Nancy Such on Line balancingYou can see Nancy's lean background above. She is an experienced lean practitioner and...

Published: 2023-03-16

Simplifying VSM's for Mixed Model Production
Most production lines make product variants with different demands, cycle times and routings through shared equipment and staff resources. Being able to handle multiple products with these...

Published: 2022-08-10

Improving Tire Production with Lean and eVSM
The tire industry (or tyre outside the US) is highly competitive. Continuous improvement efforts are underway at all tire manufacturers to reduce production costs....

Published: 2022-03-11

Learning To See - Practical What-ifs with eVSM Mix
The book "Learning To See" (Rother & Shook) published a couple of decades ago is a fantastic intro to the value stream mapping process and its fit within the...

Published: 2021-08-16

Environmental Life Cycle Mapping with eVSM Mix LCA
We are excited to announce new capability for sustainability mapping with eVSM Mix LCA. This product is at beta release stage. We will introduce the capability via...

Published: 2021-06-10

A Value Stream Model To Improve Your Recruitment Process
The Talent acquisition (or recruiting) value stream is crucial to organizations and needs to fill in vacancies with qualified staff in an efficient and timely way. This blog develops a...

Published: 2021-04-15

Creating Paper Templates for Wall Maps
Wall maps can be drawn with any combination paper, pencils, markers, post-it notes, etc. However, such hand-sketches often result in a messy view, causing confusion instead of...

Published: 2021-03-25

Case study: Use of data-centric spaghetti diagrams to improve layout
Art Thomas (VP, Operations) of Aero Industries provides a case study on the usage of spaghetti diagrams The resulting layout cut daily product travel by 40% The video below...

Published: 2021-02-22

eVSM v11.43 Released
eVSM v11.43 is now available for download, with the following changes to note: Fixed a severe bug in Solve which occurred when writing some hidden Mix variables Fixed an...

Published: 2020-11-18

Remote VSM Using Microsoft Teams & OneNote
The ability to hold VSM events in a remote manner, (where its not possible to co-locate the team physically) has become increasingly important. Our group has...

Published: 2020-11-12

eVSM v11.39 released
eVSM v11.39 is now available for download, with the following changes to note: Added support for 'Format by Example' on centers, where text font and color, and shape...

Published: 2020-09-30

Learning To See: ACME Case Study
Some of our users have evaluated us by simple looking at who else uses the eVSM software. See some of our clients at evsm.com/clients. We have not lost a VSM benchmark for a decade...

Published: 2020-08-25

Leveraging Transactional VSM - Warehousing Pick & Pack
This is a transcript of a webinar given by Dave Hollinger, discussing his work with a Home goods distributor and leveraging eVSM’s transaction mapping software....

Published: 2020-08-17

eVSM v11.34 released
eVSM v11.34 is now available for download, with the following changes to note: The eVSM Open dialog categories now match the categories on the eVSM help site. This should make it...

Published: 2020-07-20

Mix Supply Network Overview
Welcome to our blog on the supply network mapping application in eVSM Mix with supporting visual analytics. In the next few minutes we will discuss how it can be...

Published: 2020-07-08

eVSM Beta Ribbon
One thing we haven't previously made public (that I'm aware of), is a beta toolbar/ribbon in eVSM. This is where we keep some tools/features we're working on that...

Published: 2020-04-24

Remote VSM
Overview of Remote VSM Now is an unsettled time in businesses around the world. After all, many companies are busier than ever, and need to work to rapidly re-deploy or increase...

Published: 2020-04-07

eVSM Mix Data input through Excel
Mixed model value streams require significantly more data then single product value streams. The data input directly on the map can get tedious and time consuming. The Create XL and Import...

Published: 2020-02-04

Add-ons By Example
The “Addons by Example” command allows you to replicate the current center’s add-on status to all or selected similar centers on the map. The command is located in the...

Published: 2019-02-14

Leverage your Excel process data in eVSM (part 2)
In part 1 I talked about a very simple way to move data from Excel into eVSM.  This method is very limited because none of the cycle times or demands or any other process data...

Published: 2017-07-26

Simplifying Data Collection and Map Capture
eVSM can be used to simplify data collection, creation of wall value stream maps and subsequent capture of these into eVSM First we design and print paper templates for data...

Published: 2017-07-18

Leverage your Excel process data in eVSM (part 1)
Excel is a powerhouse tool for collecting and analyzing data, which is why pretty much every company uses it.  That's the reason we at eVSM have relied on Excel for so many of the...

Published: 2017-06-28

Easy Map Capture - Sketch
Since eVSM v6, we have provided Sketch stencils to go along with our Quick stencils.  These Sketch stencils are just the activity shapes from the main Quick stencil, but without any of...

Published: 2017-06-14

The easy way to capture your wall map electronically
Value stream mapping is a process that should be done as a team.  You can't get a realistic sense of how a value stream works without involving the people who work in that...

Published: 2017-05-18

Adding your own data variables
Over the years (and versions of eVSM) the concept of putting data fields on a value stream map hasn't changed much.  At its most basic, each piece of data in eVSM is comprised of a...

Published: 2017-04-13

Data Blocks made easier in eVSM
When I give eVSM demonstrations, I often get a smile at the sheer speed of mapping and analysis and with the comment that "You look like you have done this before". I thought...

Published: 2017-03-10