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Due to the increase in oil prices and high environmental dynamism, organizations delivering in affected markets need to identify ways to reduce time to market (TTM) and cost of non-quality (CONQ) of their commercialization processes, in addition to pursuing and developing new markets. In order to survive over time, organizations need to manage knowledge for exploitation and exploration, utilizing existing competencies and acquiring new ones. Companies in the manufacturing industry today are faced with increasing challenges with respect to cost effectiveness, lead time and quality of the production system. Dealing with these contradictory goals, an important task is the selection of suitable solutions for the integration of inspection processes in the industry within the process chain, which are necessary to ensure the required production quality and quantity. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a state of the art tool which is very often used for this by professionals. Value stream mapping (VSM) is used to analyses the lead times, work in progress levels (WIPs) and non-value added time. From the current state VSMs of bar-cutting/bending and column processes we have significant lead times, idle times Improvements are done by identifying the wastes and eliminating them and reducing the non-adding value. Therefore, in this article an innovative approach called Quality Value Stream Mapping (QVSM) is presented. Based on the design elements of VSM, it provides a suitable tool for the visualization, analysis and design of quality assurance measures within process chains in manufacturing. The implementation of the developed approach is exemplarily shown for Value stream in the process industry.