Greg Moser graduated from department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering in December 2001.  He also has a B. S (ME) in 1991 from the Colorado State University.

Project title: Value Stream Assessment (Global Kitting) .

(2001)

Abstract

The information that follows will discuss how the value stream map could be used as an improvement tool for reducing the variability within the global kitting operations at Boeing Airplane Services (BAS) in Wichita, Kansas. Our efforts are first focused on a pilot product with the 747 freighter kitting process. After showing success with the use of the value stream map and five lean principles, similar efforts for the other planes (757 & 767) could follow. The primarily goal of analyzing the modification processes is to first reduce the variability in kitting processes then standardize a process for the other airplanes supported by BAS. The variability in the processes exists in the kits in all the elements that are provided the engineering, planning job paper and parts that are provided to the global partners. The analysis and results will review all those elements involved in those kits and show how the value stream map could be used to improve those processes involved.

The results for the pilot project on the 747 freighter modification kitting processes applying the value stream map tool and five principles had current state and future state results are: Pilot Project (747 freighter) reduction in lead times was 52% reduction (96.3 days vs. 49.75 days).

Where comparing the longest flows in each of the value stream maps can derive those results for the 747 freighter processes (current state vs. future state with map available in the appendix). The results are first reviewed in chapter 4 of the report and further summarized in chapter 5 with the conclusions and final thoughts of the report. Finally, after the future state processes adopted on the 747 prove successful, the other two planes can then be considered for implementation and a standardized process for kitting adopted division wide.