Continuous Improvement Lean Systems
for Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Standard Work

Lean tools
for Process Improvement

Excel templates 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

• 5S Checklists - for workplace organization
• Layout Diagram spreadsheet template for spaghetti diagrams
• Standard Work Sheet - Microsoft Excel template auto-draws the chart
• Standard Work Audit  - to prevent backsliding into old habits
• Flow chart templates

Lean Training templates

• Procedure template - for documenting Standard Operating Procedures
• Training Matrix - to know whether each worker CAN take a vacation
• Work Instructions - to minimize productivity and quality losses when training a new-hire or a vacation replacement
• Job Breakdown - to help supervisors prepare to effectively train workers using the TWI Job Instructions training method.
• TWI Pocket Cards - to constantly remind your supervisors of the most important things to remember for lean success

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Standard Work xls template

Spaghetti Diagram
Excel template

Cross Functional Flowchart

Job Instructions

Value Stream Mapping

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

• Start with the simple drawing tool

  for eye-popping drawings using just Excel
  without the cost and learning curve of Visio

• Never outgrow the VSM Power Tool

  Rather than trying to struggle through all of that math with your pocket calculator,
  you simply unhide pre-programmed formulas
  to quickly answer all of the most common questions
  that are the foundational reason for doing value stream mapping in the first place

• Learn how to do value stream mapping

  Unlike Visio, these Excel templates come with lots of valuable training
  for the concepts and methods of value stream mapping.

  Training videos, examples,
  illustrated searchable online training,
  pop-up help when you click any header,
  advanced training for complex environments
  (like low volume high mix, or lean office),
  a glossary of lean terms, and even a self-paced learning tool
  to help a newcomer quickly become a more valuable member
  of your of value stream team.

Use this popular continuous improvement 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 an entire suite of value stream mapping templates,
including Product Family Matrix, Value Stream Plan, and supply chain mapping,
and you get Excel's powerful scenarios to analyze multiple sets of numbers without needing to redraw an almost identical value stream map over and over again.

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Value Stream Mapping
and Supply Chain Mapping

in ANY language

Product Family Matrix

Value Stream Plan

Self-paced Learning

Kaizen
Continuous Improvement

Lean Management templates
for Continuous Process Improvement

All the right tools to plan, lead, and follow through with any type of initiative for continuous improvement (not just Kaizen Events)

1. Lean management templates
   for lean leadership, visual controls, and leader standard work.
2. A3 templates
   make A3 Problem Solving easier and more repeatable.
3. Kaizen templates
   have everything you need to plan, implement, and follow through with a successful Kaizen Event.
4. Project management templates
   Gantt Chart, To Do List, Decision Matrix, and many more project management tools to handle any project - large or small.
5. Software project management tools
   for office automation, selection & implementation of ERP, accounting, or inventory software.
6. Strategic planning tools
   including Hoshin Planning Policy Deployment, Balanced Scorecard, and a suite of Strategic Planning worksheets.

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Download free trial A3 Report and more kaizen tools

A3 Reporting tools

Excel Gantt Chart Project Plan

Full suite of kaizen software

Lean management tools
(What should WE be doing
to support all this lean stuff?)

Six Sigma tools

Excel 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 templates (with online training) for all of those non-statistical quality improvement tools that your statistical software does so poorly (if at all).

• FMEA to identify what might possibly go wrong - and deal with it
• Root Cause Analysis Fishbone Diagram can import root causes from your FMEA
• Critical to Quality Tree and Measurement Assessment - to avoid the most common mistake in any Lean Six Sigma project - selecting the wrong measures
• Operational Definitions - to avoid the most costly mistake of any Six Sigma project
• QFD template, Cause and Effect Matrix, Voice of the Customer, and Kano Analysis - to translate what your customers are trying to tell you into words and pictures that your engineers can understand
• OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness - to maximize the utility of your most valuable assets
• Lean Sigma team organization tools - so your valuable Black Belts can focus on problems more mission critical than inventing and continuously improving templates

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

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