Title: Enhancement of the competitiveness and the financial capability of a manufacturing process through a new value stream mapping approach

Authors: Mohyiddine Soltani; Hichem Aouag; Mohammed Djamel Mouss

Addresses: Productic and Automation Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Batna 2, Rue Chahid Boukhlouf Med El Hadi, 05000 Batna, Algeria ' Productic and Automation Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Batna 2, Rue Chahid Boukhlouf Med El Hadi, 05000 Batna, Algeria ' Productic and Automation Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Batna 2, Rue Chahid Boukhlouf Med El Hadi, 05000 Batna, Algeria

Abstract: The organisations having a futuristic look and aiming to impose their presence in the industrial field for a long possible term, are seeking for finding solutions linked to controlling their cash flow and assessing their competitiveness performances. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new quality and cost value stream mapping for monitoring the costs consumption and assessing the competitiveness of a company. We use three key concepts namely life cycle costing for estimation of the most influential costs on the manufacturing process, the weighted DPMO and Sigma level for assessing the quality level and the competitiveness of the company. Finally, the data obtained are mapped using value stream mapping method for enabling the determination of dysfunctions in the cost and quality context.

Keywords: value stream mapping; VSM; life cycle costs; LCC; Sigma level; defects per million opportunities; DPMO.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2020.106399

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2020 Vol.29 No.4, pp.439 - 453

Received: 09 Feb 2018
Accepted: 20 Dec 2018
Published online: 06 Apr 2020 *

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