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th Paper presented at NOFOMA 2002, the 14 international conference, Trondheim, June 13-14, 2002 VALUE STREAM MAPPING. AN ADEQUATE METHOD FOR GOING LEAN? Bo Terje Kalsaas, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, A. Getz vei 1, N-7491 Trondheim, Ph: +47 Fax: +47 e-mail: Bo.Terje.Kalsaas@iot.ntnu.no Abstract The paper addresses the method of value stream analysis, which is a tool for helping manufacturing companies to go lean and to achieve larger control of their value stream. It is a qualitative tool that is supposed to give an understanding of the value stream/value chain as a basis for reducing the pipeline of inventory and time compress the throughput time. Both physical flow and information flow are dealt with. The approach is informed by and conceptualised on basis of experiences in the Japanese automotive industry and just-in-time production. Focus is product families and it includes suppliers and customers. A subcontractor case in the automobile industry is analysed. The research is financed by the Productivity 2005 program (BiN) at the Norwegian university of science and technology (NTNU). 1 INTRODUCTION Since the 1980-s just-in-time production and related paradigms, such as lean production, have been source of reference for restructuring manufacturing industry. To a large extent the paradigms are empirical generalisations based on the success of Japanese automobile industry in the 1980-s and later. Their way of organising production and the supply chain proved to be much more flexible and competitive compared to the old technological paradigm (Lipietz 1986). Just-in-time production makes up a set of principles related to the material flow and the control of it, quality control, industrial relationships, relationships to suppliers, etc. (Kalsaas 1995). The paper discusses results