Product Description: SimLean™ Lean Process tool SimLean™ is a fully integrated lean software solution designed to help manufacturing firms of all types and sizes cost-effectively design, evaluate, and implement lean processes for improved operational and financial performance. Built on Microsoft® Visio and Microsoft® Excel products, SimLean™ delivers powerful yet user friendly tools that leverage and extend the inherent strengths and widespread availability of commonly used Microsoft® Office solutions to dramatically improve the productivity of lean teams. SimLean™ is available in two editions:
SimLean Standard™. SimLean Standard provides diagramming, analysis, and reporting solutions that help business professionals such as program and product managers, lean practitioners, and Six Sigma Green Belts create streamlined manufacturing processes.
SimLean Professional™. SimLean Professional adds the power of simulation to the versatility of SimLean™ Standard to enable manufacturing executives to visualize the effects of lean process improvement initiatives on customer demand management, inventory management, product flow, production throughput, yields, delivery performance, and other KPIs before implementation.
With SimLean™, users can do the following: Improve and integrate lean processes and systems
• Streamline drawing, distribution, and updating of VSM diagrams
• Support mass-update of VSM process data directly from/to spreadsheets and ODBC compliant databases to value stream maps
• Seamlessly share VSM process data between Microsoft® Visio, Microsoft® Excel, Microsoft® Word, and Microsoft® Project
• Automatically calculate key VSM metrics
• Automatically produce comprehensive report spreadsheets and graphs
• Dynamically model VSM flow
Example of SimLean lean event report package Examples of SimLean dialog boxes used to facilitate data capture Examples of SimLean™ spreadsheet and graph output Communicate information clearly and collaborate more effectively
• Create comprehensive management reports for each product line and lean event
• Hyperlink between parts of a SimLean™ diagram, to other SimLean™ diagrams, or to supporting files or Web pages for enterprise level views
• Collaborate and share SimLean™ diagrams from within the Microsoft® Visio interface using Document Workspaces that reside on Windows SharePoint™ Services sites (requires Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server)
• Save SimLean™ diagrams as Web pages complete with navigation controls, custom property viewer, reports and a search feature
COMPANY INFORMATION:
Orlando Software Group specializes in the design, development, implementation and support of advanced business process modeling, analytics and simulation solutions for businesses of all sizes. By leveraging and extending the inherent strengths of Microsoft's Visio, Excel and Project, OSG has created a low-cost, high-value solution that can be seamlessly integrated into your existing portfolio of IT solutions and rapidly deployed into your workforce.
