Product Description: A company's facilities are often its largest single investment and a key to the effectiveness of its operations. This book is designed to be a complete reference for those who design and manage factory buildings, office complexes, hospitals and other commercial and industrial facilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book acquaints the reader with Value Stream Mapping as well as Process Mapping, and thereby provides a dual set of tools. This dual set is far more effective than either technique alone. With photos and examples of related Lean practices, the book focuses on implementing VSM, not just drawing diagrams and graphs.