Value stream engineering

Type and variant variety as complexity drivers and the increasing volatility of the markets poses a challenge to conceive a new industrial engineering. Especially the strongly customer-driven small and medium sized enterprises places negate to the article-referred ways of traditional planning methods. The value stream engineering approach is based in the context of the Toyota production system and of the Lean Production approach on four paradigms, which permit a comprehensive and at the same time visible organization of the processes and expirations in small and medium sized enterprises. Value Stream Engineering contains a component system made possible by rules, process templates and methods for the design of a firm specific industrial engineering approach in enterprises with customer driven production processes.