Question: Create a Value Stream Map for a process. i) Describe a process of your choice (that you have experienced, or you know well, or you

Create a Value Stream Map for a process. i) Describe a process of your choice (that you have experienced, or you know well, or you worked in the past or currently working.) (2 pt.) ii) Create your own Value Stream Map for the process you described (2 pt.) iii) Map out a process (use a standard process format or a value stream map, VSM, format). This may be done by hand (neatly) or using a computer software (preferably) Microsoft Visio, Excel, or PowerPoint. You need to draw/develop your own VSM. (3 pts.) 2 iv) Identify Value Added (VA) and Non-value added NVA time from the value stream map. [Note: All wait times are NVA] (1 pt.) [Note: To answer Question 2 (Part 2) you need to identify processing time for individual processes and wait times between the process (or WIP inventory) in between processes.] v) Calculate the following from the current state of VSM (2 pts.) a. Total Process Time: (value added time) b. Total Wait Time: (non-value-added time) c. Total Cycle Time: (Process waiting time) or (value added non-value added) d. Calculate efficiency (% process time/cycle time) vi) Identify opportunities for improvement, and list potential improvement ideas

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