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Visio Trusted Locations

This page shows you how to add the eVSM installation folder to the Visio trusted locations list. Here are the steps to follow.

  1. Start Visio without eVSM

  2. Click "File>Options>Trust Center>Trust Center Settings..." 

     

  3. Click "Trust Center Locations > Add new location..."  

Leverage your Excel process data in eVSM (part 1)
Excel is a powerhouse tool for collecting and analyzing data, which is why pretty much every company uses it.  That's the reason we at eVSM have relied on Excel for so many of the lean...

Published: 2017-06-28

Easy Map Capture - Sketch
Since eVSM v6, we have provided Sketch stencils to go along with our Quick stencils.  These Sketch stencils are just the activity shapes from the main Quick stencil, but without any of...

Published: 2017-06-14

The easy way to capture your wall map electronically
Value stream mapping is a process that should be done as a team.  You can't get a realistic sense of how a value stream works without involving the people who work in that...

Published: 2017-05-18

20 Years of Learning to See

The eVSM software was first released in 2002, a few years after the book "Learning To See", as a means of capturing the wall value stream maps advocated by the book. Over the last 15 years it has gone through a significant transformation to fulfill its mission in serving the lean practitioner community.

Adding your own data variables
Over the years (and versions of eVSM) the concept of putting data fields on a value stream map hasn't changed much.  At its most basic, each piece of data in eVSM is comprised of a...

Published: 2017-04-13