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Purchase any bundle of templates for $399. Or $199 per seat when you get 4 or more seats.
or save even more with Discounts for Multiple Bundles - to mix n match whatever you need to round out your Lean toolkit.

Value Stream Mapping  

Depict and analyze the flow of inventory and the information that regulates the flow of inventory - in a way that makes it easy to see the 7 types of waste popularized in the book Learning To See.

Notice that you get TWO value stream mapping templates:

1) Simple, easy-to-use drawing tool
2) VSM-PowerTool that you won't outgrow when you executives ask tough questions - because all Lean metrics are pre-programmed 
And you get a tool to define your Product Families - which is the first step of value stream mapping

Download free trial Value Stream Mapping PowerTool

Lean tools  
Standard Work tools are the most important in your Lean toolkit. These are the tools that allow you to "ratchet" your gains, to prevent backsliding into old habits.

* Layout Diagram Spaghetti Map
* Standardized Work Instructions
* Value Add Analysis pie chart
* Operator Load Balancing bar chart
* Standard Work Combination Sheet - auto-draws work, walk, wait, & machine time
* Standard Work Audit - to ensure that work is being done the way you think it is being done

Kaizen tools  
Fill in the blank templates with on-line training. Everything you need to plan, implement, and follow through with a successful Kaizen Event.

* 16-page Kaizen Event Checklist

* Mandate, Agenda, Team Roles

* Action List, and more...

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Process Engineering 
Our customers tell us that the Swim Lane Flow Chart is the one template they use the most.

* Swim Lane Functional Flow Chart
* Simple flow chart

Fill-in-the-blanks worksheets covering every concept in Ray in Ray Manganelli's Reengineering Handbook:

* Process Reengineering Matrix

* Jobs Design Matrix

* Change Management Matrix

Training Program Design  
Nothing really changes until your people start actually doing things the new way.

* Visual Work Instructions to minimize the productivity and quality losses of training a new-hire or a vacation replacement.
* Cross-training matrix - to know whether each worker CAN take a vacation

* Force Field and Change Management
* And more helpful tools to make it easy to design an effective training program

Download free trial Visual Work Instructions

DMAIC Six Sigma tools 

Root Cause Analysis Fishbone Diagram that can import root causes from your FMEA (Failure Modes & Effects Analysis), Thought Map Relations Cloud Diagram to identify root causes too complex for a fishbone, SIPOC, House of Quality QFD, Cause & Effect Matrix, Pareto Chart, Measures Selection, Critical to Quality Tree, and more tools to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control the quality of your products & services

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

Project Management tools 
Excel Gantt Chart Project Plan priced low enough that you might be able to afford a seat for every member of your team, Project Team Facilities worksheet, Project Cost Estimate worksheet, Decision Matrix,
Meeting Agenda & Minutes template, Priorities Consensus worksheet, Organization Chart, Team To Do List, and more

ERP Software Project tools 
If you happen to be replacing or improving your accounting software, inventory software, or any other kind of enterprise software, these tools can reduce your project costs by literally tens of thousands of dollars - by increasing what you own people can do in-house.

Strategic Planning tools 

Balanced Scorecard, Policy Deployment Matrix, Strategic Plan, Priorities Consensus worksheet, Organization Chart, over a dozen Strategic Planning prep sheets. Everything your execs need to come to your next Strategic Planning session more prepared than ever.

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Excel templates for Lean Kaizen Business Process Improvement

Most of our new clients find us because they are looking for Lean manufacturing and lean tools, or are looking for a toolkit for a Kaizen initiative for business process improvement.

The most popular Lean tool is the value stream mapping template, which uses special symbols known as "the language of Lean" to visually depict the flow of inventory and information. (Tip: Get a free trial version value stream mapping template when you sign up for our newsletter.)

The Spaghetti Diagram and Standard Work Sheet are used together to provide clearly understandable work instructions, using both words and visual images.

While lean tools are ideal for analyzing and optimizing highly repetitive processes with short cycle times, the swim lane flow chart software and related business process engineering tools are ideal for processes with medium-length cycle times, (like sales order processing, engineering changes, etc.).

With a toolbox full of Systems2win templates, your Lean leaders can focus on improving business processes - no time delays - no long learning curves - just impressive results.

Excel templates for DMAIC Lean Six Sigma

The Systems2win six sigma tools are designed to fill in the holes found in the tool kit of many a Black Belt.

Yes, this is a suite of DMAIC tools to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control any process... but the big difference is that these tools don't do any statistics.

Your Systems2win Six Sigma toolkit includes all of those other quality improvement tools that your statistical software does so poorly (if at all).

The Ishikawa root cause analysis fishbone diagram, House of Quality, Quality Functional Deployment Matrix, FMEA, Measures Assessment, critical to quality tree diagrams, Kano Analysis, and team organization tools will dilate the pupils of any experienced DMAIC project manager.

Strategic Planning Tools

Among the business planning tools, the balanced scorecard is the most popular. Executive teams use it to come up with strategic performance measures that are balanced between factors such as trailing vs. leading indicators, subjective vs. objective, goal attainment vs. relative improvement.

The policy deployment matrix, provides an impressively simple way of correlating "ivory tower" strategic decisions with everyday tasks.

The "hidden jewels" among these templates are the Strategic Planning Worksheets. These eleven fill-in-the-blanks worksheets help every member of your executive team prepare for your next round of strategic planning with succinct thoroughness for every topic ranging from sales to finance to logistics.

Project Management tools

Every one of the above types of projects will benefit from the generic project management tools, which include a Gantt chart, and many useful tools that will brighten the eyes of any Project Manager.

Excel templates for ERP Software Project Management

If your company is doing an enterprise software project, then you will benefit from every continuous improvement tool mentioned above, plus about 50 more.

Our project management tools have been field-proven with hundreds of clients, and include everything your Project Manager will need to select and implement enterprise software.

Training Program Design

Once you start changing things, you're soon going to need to start training your people to do things in new ways. Training Program Design tools include a Cross-Training Matrix, a Training Program Design Specification worksheet, and many helpful tools.

Use the Job Instructions worksheet to provide your new-hires and temporaries with detailed training - with written work instructions supplementing the (much more easily understood) pictures.

These templates will save you a lot of time, and make you look good.

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