Product Family Matrix
Analysis
Product Family Matrix
Matrix mapping products to process steps to identify natural product families for cells and value-stream mapping.
Examples
- 01A product family matrix of 60 products against 12 process steps shows three natural families that share most steps.
- 02The analyst builds the product family matrix from routing data and then checks it at the gemba, because some routings are outdated.
- 03Based on the product family matrix, the team picks the largest family for its first value stream map.