Question: Note: Can you please make an actual VSM ( drawing ) with boxes and all the details? A company Alpha produces X material bags with

Note: Can you please make an actual VSM (drawing) with boxes and all the details?
A company Alpha produces X material bags with a daily demand of 8000kg. The production time available per
day is 24 hours (two 12-hour shifts). Assume that the customer places weekly orders for grinding of the
material through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. The CSR (Customer service representative)
receives and confirms the request and sends the work order to the logistics and planning department. The
planning department schedules and confirms the order of the raw material from the supplier. The supplier
weekly carries the material to be the production facility. The Logistics department receives the materials from
the supplier and sends the work order to the production department. After the manufacturing process is
done, the customers receive a weekly delivery of the product. There are five manufacturing processes,
including Grinding, Bag filling and transportation, Flattening, Bagging, Wrapping in the production facility.
Further details about the manufacturing processes are provided below:
The grinding process receives the weekly order to grind 50,000kg of material.
The time taken by the one operator for offloading the material and setting up the grinding machine is
45 minutes. The production rate of the grinding machine at 80% capacity is 1000kg per hour. Based
on the production rate of 1000kg per hour, and the cycle time of the grinding process for grinding 1kg
of material is 0.06 minutes. The Setup time for grinding operation is 45 minutes.
After 1 hour of grinding operation, the grinding machine will be stopped by the operator and the same
operator will start the bag filling and transportation process. The operator labels the bag with the
material ID and fills the material from the finished material into the auto bagger. The operator weighs
8 bags of 25kg each of material and put them on the conveyor. The cycle time for filling and
transporting 1kg of material is 0.035 minutes.
In the next operation, a 50kg(2bags) of the 200kg(8bags) of material will pass through the flattener
at once and will be sitting on the conveyor. After this operation, a total of 250kg of material (10 bags)
will be sitting on the conveyor, waiting for the bagging operation. The cycle time for flattening of 1kg
of material is 0.0004 minutes.
The bagging operation involves lifting the bag from the conveyor and placing the bag onto a pallet.
The same operator will lift 10 bags, one bag at a time, from the conveyor and arrange them on the
pallet. The time consumed for lifting and placing 10 bags on the pallet is 3 minutes.
Once 55 bags are accumulated on the pallet, the operator will use a forklift and will move the
material towards wrapping machine for wrapping operation. The wrapping machine will wrap the 55
bags in 6.87 minutes.
Once all the 50,000kg of material is processed and arrive at the shipping area, the material will be
shipped to the customer.
Use the data and description above and standard value stream mapping symbols, draw/derive the two value
stream maps and explain your rationale.
a)(2 pages) Draw a complete Current State Map. Indicate clearly, all the processes, human resources,
inventory, lead-time, cycle time, setup-time and find the process efficiency?
b)(2 pages) Derive Future State Map and identify the improvement areas and wastes in the process.
Calculate the % age of improvement done on the production time. Show all the waste eliminated in the
process using kaizen bursts.
 Note: Can you please make an actual VSM (drawing) with boxes

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