Kaizen Excel Templates
for Continuous Process Improvement

to improve ANY process - in ways that stick

If you are just starting your lean journey - then you have just discovered an arsenal of free training and inexpensive lean tools that will launch your process improvement initiative like a rocket - and greatly improve its chances of staying in orbit.

If you are a seasoned lean professional - then you might ask yourself: What is the most productive use of your time?
To sit in a corner inventing templates? or to invest in professional tools that greatly leverage your expertise?

Welcome to Systems2win - where our mission is to help you continuously improve your tools for continuous improvement

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Step 1) Download your free trial Excel templates and continuous improvement tools

Step 2) Learn from our free lean training videos, kaizen & lean training, and free webinars

Step 3) Choose from these four bundles of process improvement tools

(click the folder tabs below to view the four bundles of Excel templates for process improvement)

Lean tools

A full lean toolkit to improve and document any type of process

When you drill down from your value stream map
to related documents with greater levels of detail,
these are the lean tools you will usually drill down to...

Standard Work excel tools

Lean Training templates

 

Learn more with our free lean training and lean video

Download free trial Standard Work, Job Instructions, Value Stream Mapping, and more

Standard Work Combination Sheet
Standard Work xls template

Spaghetti diagram Excel template
Spaghetti Diagram
Excel template

Cross Functional Flowchart
Cross Functional Flowchart

Job Instructions - Work Instructions Excel template
Job Instructions

Value Stream Mapping

A full suite of Excel templates with all you need to map any type of value stream...

Use this popular Lean tool to depict and analyze the flow of the thing being processed - in a way that makes it easy to see the 7 types of waste popularized in the book Learning To See.

You get several value stream mapping templates,
including supply chain mapping,
all with Excel's powerful scenarios to analyze multiple sets of numbers without needing to redraw an almost identical value stream map over and over again.

 

View free on-line training for value stream mapping

Download free trial Value Stream Mapping template

Get the VSM-PowerTool trial as a free gift when you attend a free live webinar

value stream mapping Excel template
Value Stream Mapping

Product Family Matrix Excel template
Product Family Matrix

Value Stream Plan Excel template

Kaizen Tools

Lean Management templates
for Continuous Improvement

All the right tools to plan, lead, and follow through with any type of initiative for continuous improvement

  1. Lean management templates for lean leadership.
  2. A3 templates make A3 Problem Solving easier and more repeatable.
  3. Kaizen spreadsheet templates have everything you need to plan, implement, and follow through with a successful Kaizen Event.
  4. Project management templates to handle any project - large or small.
  5. Software project management tools for office automation.
  6. Strategic planning tools - including Hoshin Planning Policy Deployment.

 

See free Lean Kaizen Training

Download free trial A3 Report and more kaizen tools

A3 Report Word template
A3 Reporting tools

Excel Gantt Chart
Excel Gantt Chart Project Plan

Kaizen Plan template
Full suite of kaizen tools

Six Sigma tools

Office templates to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control
the quality of any process in your entire value stream map

Designed to fill in the holes found in the tool kit of many a Black Belt, these DMAIC tools are fill-in-the-blanks Excel and Word templates (with online training) for all of those non-statistical continuous quality improvement tools that your statistical software does so poorly (if at all).

These non-statistical tools are intended to supplement,
not replace your favorite statistics software

Download free trial six sigma templates

Six Sigma tools
Six Sigma tools

Root Cause Fishbone Diagram
Root Cause Fishbone Diagram

QFD Excel template
QFD House of Quality

FMEA Excel template

 

Which bundles of templates do we need?

That's the most common question we hear.
And the answer is that you will probably find them all useful somewhere along your lean journey.

  1. Value Stream Mapping is our most popular bundle.
    Our VSM package is so much more complete than any competitor - with a full suite of templates for every aspect of value stream mapping (rather than 1 drawing tool), many more pre-programmed lean metrics, full supply chain mapping, much more helpful online training, and even a self-paced learning tool to get your VSM team members quickly up to speed on the perhaps unfamiliar terminology.
  2. Lean Tools contain the most pleasant surprises.
    "I didn't know there was a Standard Work Combination Sheet that could auto-draw the chart."
    "I had no idea that Excel could make drawings like that without the cost of Visio."
    "Wow, your Job Instructions template can do all that!!!"
  3. Kaizen Lean Leadership has the most templates and the simplest templates.
    Simple enough that even senior managers can quickly use them with little or no training. Which is a good thing - because most lean failures fail because senior management was unfamiliar with lean management systems.

    Sound familiar? Maybe last year's "failed lean attempt" might go better this time with more attention to the lean management systems needed to support each corresponding element of a lean production system.

  4. DMAIC Six Sigma Tools are designed to supplement (not replace) your favorite statistical software. The FMEA, root cause fishbone, and Cause & Effect templates are the most popular.
    The QFD and OEE templates have the biggest return on investment.

 

At Systems2win, our philosophy is
to provide you with all of the tools that you are likely to encounter on your lean journey

priced affordably so every team member can have every tool they need

and then to keep innovating every year
to continuously improve your tools for continuous improvement


Top Two Concerns

  1. "We might want to start with simple tools that our people find or create themselves."

    Which is simpler? To start with an at-first-seemingly-simple tool, and then you do the programming or hand calculations to answer the questions that come up later... or to start with tools that you won't outgrow - and simply unhide already-written features as you need them?

    Which is simpler? To give each person in your company the "freedom" (burden?) to find or create their own tools... or to empower your people with a standard set of professional tools that all share standard features for online training, standard vocabulary, and standard quality standards?

    In other words... If a cornerstone lean objective is to standardize work - then why wouldn't you provide standardized tools for standard work?

  2. "We want to mix and match these tools with some of our favorites."
    • You can easily remove tools you don't want to distribute to your users
    • You can easily personalize any Word or Excel template
    • You can easily add and sync your own Word and Excel templates

Why Re-invent?

Why reinvent

Top Ten Reasons to Choose Systems2win Templates

  1. Consistent standardized way of doing things. Everyone does things the same way.
  2. Consistent tools. 150+ templates - all with a consistent user interface.
  3. Ease of learning. Once you've learned one tool - the others get easier and easier. And most people already know how to use Word and Excel.
  4. Excellent online training. Training videos. Searchable training. Every template has pop-up help, a Sample page, and a Help page. Excel training, value stream mappping, topic-specific education, self-paced learning tools... All free and instantly available as needed.
  5. No need for Visio. We teach you how to easily make eye-popping drawings using nothing more than Excel. No need for the extra cost of Visio, or the extra learning curve of Visio.
  6. Math. You have all the power of Excel to write your own calculations (that Visio simply can't do). And (more impressively), we have already done most of the math for you - so you can simply plug in your numbers to quickly answer questions common to any lean puzzle.
  7. Easy personalization. It's Excel. You already know how to use Excel to make a few small changes to exactly fit your unique needs.
  8. Support. 1 year free technical support, and we actually answer the phone.
  9. We over-deliver. We give you more than you originally thought you were getting. When was the last time you said that about any of your suppliers?
  10. Affordable. Our volume discount and site license pricing is so affordable that maybe you can afford to empower every team member - not just the already-over-worked few that "have a license for that".

 

 
 
 

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Excel templates for a continuous improvement lean system
to save time, do it right, and do it consistently

How can we see them?

  1. Download 20 free trial templates
  2. Watch some of our free online training & demo videos
  3. Join a live web conference - held almost every Wednesday
  4. Schedule a private conference - for just your team
  5. Test drive ANY template - or all 150+ templates -
    with the confidence of a 30-day money back guarantee

 

Or write a quick email,
or call with a few quick questions

 

Welcome to Systemswin -
where our mission is to help you continuously improve your tools for continuous improvement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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in manufacturing, service, and lean healthcare


Lean videos

This web site has many
free training videos,
like this one...

 

Introduction to
Systems2win Templates


 

 

Download over 20 free trial templates to see what your lean toolkit might be missing

Try them yourself -
tools that might take your continuous improvement
to a whole new level

 

 

 

Systems2win hosts free live webinars every Wednesday.

Why not join in, and see these process improvement templates demonstrated by an expert?

 

 

 

Schedule a web conference for just your team

 

 

 

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