Value stream mapping

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A lean method for visualizing how material, information and decisions flow through a product family, including process steps, queues and handoffs.

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• Swimlane diagram · Related to · Concept
  A process diagram that arranges the steps of a business process in parallel lanes, one per role, team or system, so that responsibilities and handoffs become visible.
• iFAKT GmbH · Related to · Organization
  Stuttgart-based consulting company and software specialist for Industry 4.0, founded in 2001, that helps manufacturers plan and optimize production and logistics processes; developer of the Polaris software.
• Jörg Drees · Related to · Person
  Jörg Drees is co-founder and managing director of iFAKT GmbH in Stuttgart and has published on value stream mapping and digital value stream methods in the Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb (ZWF) and Procedia CIRP.
• Lars Schubert · Related to · Person
  Lars Schubert is a co-founder of iFAKT GmbH in Stuttgart and co-author of the article "Dynamische Simulation von Wertströmen" (ZWF, 2014), in which he is named as founder and managing director of the company.
• Polaris VSM · Related to · Product
  Module of iFAKT Polaris for data-based value stream mapping that models material and information flows collaboratively and makes waste and bottlenecks visible.

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Maintained by Mirko Peters (Microsoft MVP) · Last updated: 2026-11-06