Value Stream Mapping价值流图
Value Stream Mapping is a lean-management method that charts the flow of materials and information required to bring a product from raw material to the customer. In manufacturing documentation, it appears as a visual diagram with current-state and future-state views used to identify delays, inventory, and non-value-adding steps.
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Where this term appears
In localization, VSM appears in lean training materials, continuous-improvement reports, and operational playbooks used by plant teams. Translators may work on diagram labels such as C/T, WIP, and inventory buffers, or on facilitator notes that explain how to distinguish material flow arrows from information flow arrows; mistranslating these short labels can make the entire map unusable.
Translation checks
A frequent mistake is translating “current-state map” as “current status map” or “current map,” which obscures the before/after logic of current-state versus future-state. Another is translating both material flow and information flow as the same generic “flow,” hiding the lean distinction between production movement and planning signals.
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