When you have an estimate of the optimal time it should take to finish a task and compare it with the actual time it takes to accomplish them in the workplace, it makes it easier to find the areas of improvement. This is the specific purpose of a Yamazumi chart and the reason why com...
Some people will say they value stream map a single work cell. For the same reason as I explain in my comments about not going dock to dock, a map of a single work cell is not a value stream map. More likely it will be a line balance (yamazumi) chart that is used to balance the...