Visualise the Flow. Transform the Outcome.
Based in Cambridge, ESSENTECH helps organisations across the UK visualise how their work flows – and where it breaks down. Our Value Stream Mapping workshops reveal hidden inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and hand-off issues, enabling teams to build a smarter, leaner future.
Whether you’re a local manufacturer or a UK-wide service provider, our workshops are tailored to your specific processes and objectives.
What Is Value Stream Mapping?
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a core Lean tool that offers a clear visual overview of every step in a process. From raw materials to finished product, or from customer request to delivery, VSM shows where value is created — and where it’s lost.
As part of a Kaizen continuous improvement process, mapping helps you eliminate non-value-adding activities, reduce lead times, and align teams around shared priorities. Our UK-based consultants facilitate this process with clarity and precision.
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Run a VSM Workshop
Our Value Stream Mapping workshops are hands-on, practical sessions held in Cambridge, on-site at your premises anywhere in the UK, or delivered virtually. Each session is fully customised to your industry, scale, and improvement goals.
We help teams:
- Map current-state processes
- Identify waste and delays
- Introduce Lean improvements using the 5S method
- Align process changes to strategic goals with the Hoshin Kanri matrix
- Co-create a future-state map ready for implementation
Whether your team is new to Lean or scaling up an existing programme, our workshops offer immediate insight and long-term impact.
Training That Goes Beyond the Map
ESSENTECH supports organisations across the UK with a full suite of Lean processes and tools training. Many clients in Cambridge and beyond build on their mapping work with additional courses in:
- 5S learning and workspace organisation
- Kaizen event planning and execution
- Long-term strategy deployment using Hoshin Kanri
- Cross-functional process improvement techniques
We ensure each training path builds practical skills that can be applied directly within your organisation.
Partner with ESSENTECH to visualise inefficiencies and unlock lasting improvement – wherever you’re based in the UK.