The Fundamentals Of Standard Work

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The Fundamentals OfStandard Work

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Standard Work Is

• The best combination of people and equipment,
• Utilizing the minimum amount of labor, space,
  inventory, and equipment,
• For a specific level of customer demand

The way we choreograph the operators within a
process for a given level of demand (takt time)
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Standard Work

• Standardization
• Reduces Variation
• Enables Flow
• Eliminates Waste
• Fuels Continuous Improvement
• ... in quest of the

shortest lead-time
highest quality
lowest cost
Standard Work is part of the foundation
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Why Implement Standard Work

• To make it possible to identify and eliminate
  variations in operator work
• To sustain the gains achieved from improvement
  activities
• To provide a baseline for future improvement

Standard work and variation reduction are key in
creating a foundation of stability.
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How Leaders Support Standard Work

• Ensure that SW is Documented for Each Operator
• Ensure that SW Documentation is Displayed
• Ensure that all operators are trained and follow
  agreed upon SW
• Encourage Experimentation and revisions to SW
  after improvements are found
• Repeat above cycle

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Applying Standard Work

• Team Leaders determine the SW work goal (shared
  by work team).
• Everyone seeks to improve against the standard
  focusing on identifying and eliminating waste
• Each process in the flow becomes the customer of
  the preceding process.
• Each preceding process becomes a just-in-time
  supplier for the consuming process (RM towards
  FG).
• Operational tests, Quality checks, 5S actions,
  and material conveyance are included in SW.

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Essentials of Standard Work

• Standard Work Is
• Created by people doing the work, facilitated by
  their leader.
• Operator Specific
• Specifies content, sequence, timing, and
  outcome.
• Includes Takt time and Standard Work-in-Process
  (SWIP)
• inventory.
• Clear, visible, and posted at the process.
• Defines the normal condition normal is not
  chaotic.
• Only changed based on Takt or improvement by the
  owners.

Standard Work always enables production. The
standard is the specification for evaluating
potential improvements.
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The Path To Standard Work
Work Content Sequence
Line Balance
Standard WIP
Takt Time

• Available time
• Customer demand

• Time Observation Form
• Total work content

• Load Chart
• Balance work
• Enable flow
• Required resources

• Location
• Amount
• Enable Flow

• SW Combination Sheet
• Content
• Sequence
• Timing
• Outcome
• Safety

Standard Work
Standard Work is central to the Continuous
Improvement Process
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Capturing Work Content
Activity of the Product
Multi-Cycle Analysis
Total Manual Workload
Manpower
Takt Time
Staffing
Line Balancing
Activity of analysis, line balancing and
staffing calculations all come together as inputs
to Standardized Work
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Standardized Work Combination Sheet

• Pulls it all together..
• Takt Time
• Work Content and Sequence
• Line Balancing
• Standard WIP

• Specifying.
• Flow of human work within a process
• Time requirement for each work element
• Work content contained within the Takt time

• Helping..
• Identify improvement opportunities
• Balance human motion and machine operations

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Example Standardized Work Combination Sheet
Standardized Work combination sheet specifies all
elements of work content, time and work flow
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The Fundamentals OfStandard Work

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