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 keyin 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

Standard Work is central to the Continuous Improvement Process

Standard Work

Takt TimeWork

Content &Sequence

LineBalance

StandardWIP

• Available time • Customer demand

• Time Observation Form• Total work content

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

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

• Location• Amount• Enable Flow

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Capturing Work Content

Activity of… analysis, line balancing and staffing calculations all come together as inputs to Standardized Work

Process: Observer: Date:Step Op Element 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Task Time Remarks

Time for 1 cycle

Step Description Time Notes / Improvement Ideas

123456789101112131415161718192021

TaktTime

Op A Op B Op C Op D Op E Op F

Tim

e

Total Manual Workload

Takt Time= Manpower

Activity of the Product Multi-Cycle Analysis

Line Balancing Staffing

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Standardized Work Combination Sheet

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

Pulls it all together…..

• Takt Time• Work Content and Sequence• Line Balancing• Standard WIP

Helping…..• Identify improvement opportunities

• Balance human motion and machine operations

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Example: Standardized Work Combination Sheet

Standardized WorkCombination Sheet

Revision Date:Revision #

Walk Time:

Manual Time:

Labor Value Added Time:

Machine Time:Basic Time Requirements

Operations Times Denote Cycle / takt time with a bright markerUser Defined Intervals

1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Hr/day

Sec/day TotalLabor time

Takttime

HeadCount

Cycletime

Hrly output

manualtime

walktime

machineauto time

secondssec. seconds

Step Element

TT

123

456

Pick up RMUn/re-load start M1Un/re-load start M2Un/re-load start M3Gauge shaft OD

Put down FG

2 26 216572

2418

22222

Manual:

Automatic:

Walking:

Revision Date:Revision #

Walk Time:

Manual Time:

Labor Value Added Time:

Machine Time:Basic Time Requirements

Operations Times Denote Cycle / takt time with a bright markerUser Defined Intervals

1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Hr/day

Sec/day TotalLabor time

Takttime

HeadCount

Cycletime

Hrly output

manualtime

walktime

machineauto time

secondssec. seconds

Step Element

TT

123

456

Pick up RMUn/re-load start M1Un/re-load start M2Un/re-load start M3Gauge shaft OD

Put down FG

2 26 216572

2418

22222

Manual:

Automatic:

Walking:

Standardized Work combination sheet specifies all elements of work content, time and work flow

The Fundamentals OfStandard Work

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