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Template Benefits

Written in Excel -
so your people already own and know how to use it
Professional - what will your executives say when they see this?
Save time and money not having to re-draw the chart for every little change
Comes bundled with other business process improvement templates providing even more value

You save hours...

Doing Value Add Analysis
Optimizing your processes to eliminate waste
Balancing your Staff Loads
Avoiding the need to re-draw charts by hand
Avoiding the need to recalculate everything whenever anything changes
Avoiding redundant entry of the same data that is traditionally re-entered into 4 different places - that this template combines into one convenient tool
Providing your workers with clearly defined standard work instructions - to avoid miscommunications and quality errors

Option to manually draw

Although you will usually want to use the auto-draw chart, there might be occasions where you want to manually draw a worksheet, in the exact same ways seen in Lean six sigma textbooks. Systems2win provides a printed standard work sheet to make it easy to do that too

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Standard Work

Tools for standardized work are the most important tools in your Lean toolkit -
because they avoid backsliding into old habits

The Standard Work Sheet Excel template is 5 tools in 1:

Value Add Analysis (auto-calculates pie chart)
Work Balancing (auto-draws work load balancing bar chart in relation to Takt Time)
Standard Work Instructions & Analysis
Quick Changeover tool for setup reduction
Standard Work Combination Sheet visual time chart

Standard Work Combination Sheet Excel template

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The Standard Work Combination Sheet (below), provides standardized work instructions, and auto-draws the standard work table, which is great for analyzing a process to easily identify and eliminate waste.

Standard Work Combination Sheet Excel template

You have options to:

Auto-draw a Standard Work Combination Sheet with a single click of a button.
Create a separate time chart for each operator, or display all operators in a single chart.
Use either stopwatch or video Time Observation to observe and time your standard work procedures
Split your Value Add Pie Chart into your own user-defined types of waste
Plot as many as 4 chart lines - for Takt Time, Target Cycle Time, Cycle Time, and even a 4th user-defined chart line (perhaps for out of cycle work?)
see our free online training for Lean Time Definitions
Draw the chart with or without labels
Include up to 200 lines of work elements on a single chart
(and spread even larger processes over multiple charts - perhaps with summary data rolling up to each higher level)
Define your own header data field labels
Link to or from another worksheet for calculations such as Working Time Available, product mix, or master scheduling...
Paste a picture of your Spaghetti Diagram on the same page with your Standard Work Combination Table!
Use this as a Quick Changeover tool for Lean SMED setup reduction

Standard Work Training & Demo Videos

Standard Work videos
- Why Standard Work tools are the most important in your tool kit (6 mins)
- Spaghetti Diagram video (7 mins)
- Standard Work video (13 mins)
- What's New in Lean Standard Work (8 mins)
- Introduction to Lean Kaizen DMAIC Six Sigma (13 min DMAIC training video)
Additional training relevant to this template
The Sample and Help worksheets of every template also contain training relevant to THAT template
- SMED - Quick changeover setup reduction
- Introduction to Systems2win templates (5 min video)
- How to find Help & Training for any Systems2win template
- How to use the Training Matrix to validate learning
- TWI Training Within Industry Job Instructions Training
- What's new in v5&6 for all Systems2win templates
- Training & Demos home page
- Also see the rest of the Lean tools that come bundled with your Standard Work template
- And see the Visual Work Instructions that are the next logical extension beyond Standard Work

What are the benefits of Standard Work?

Tools for standardized work are arguably the most important of all Lean tools - because this is where "theory meets practice". If the people doing the actual work aren't doing it the way that your process improvement team envisioned - then your entire lean effort was wasted.

The heart of ISO 9000 certification is to certify that you have thoroughly documented the way that you do things, and that your workers actually do things in the way that was documented. That is what Standard Work is all about.

Even if your company is not seeking official ISO 9000 certification, these standard work tools can still provide the same benefits - because your people will be doing their work "the standard way" that is thoroughly documented and audited - so that your customers and investors can trust that your processes are under control - and more importantly, so that YOU can trust that your processes are under control.

It is one thing for a Lean Team to dream up new processes, and even to thoroughly document them, but nothing really changes until you have:
1) printed your standardized work instructions and posted them where workers can see them as they do the work
2) trained your supervisors to perform an effective Standard Work Audit - to ensure that your people are actually doing the work in the ways defined in your Standard Work Sheet.

Training Within Industry

During World War II, Standard Work was popularized in the US-government-sponsored Training Within Industry program, which proved successful to rapidly re-tool industries and rapidly re-train people for the war effort. Since then, TWI has continued to evolve into the Standard Work tools you see today.

New features

Version 7

July 2009

Free Trial now available. Download free trial

Quick Changeover Setup reduction. New features were added to make this Standard Work Sheet the perfect Lean SMED tool for quick change over set up reduction.

Version 5- released October 2007

Auto-draw a Standard Work Combination Chart with a single push of a button. Copying the data to the chart worksheet used to involve a 2-minute error-prone process. Auto-drawing a chart is now instantly done with the push of one button.

New Systems2win menu that appears whenever you open Excel
* Easy ways to find & open templates.
* New stencil of Link Icons for creating hyperlinks to related documents.
* New flag icons - to link multi-language documents.

* Easier upgrades. From now on, you will usually be able to upgrade without transferring data from old working documents to new templates - because code is now separated from data.

Easily sync templates in your local PC with master templates in your company's shared portal.
* Easily distribute personalized templates to all users.
* Easy for laptop users to always have access to your company's latest templates - even when disconnected from your network.

Version control - new version control features allow centralized data to instantly update multiple related worksheets - for header data, header field labels, takt time, and any other shared data.
Each field on each worksheet can be either populated from a central version control page - or overridden with data unique to that worksheet.
This centralized version control worksheet is a real time and mistake saver even when used in a stand-alone workbook - but really shows its worth in an ISO 9000 environment - especially when integrated with any third-party version control software.

Easier help
* More consistent user interface.
* Separate worksheets for Sample and Help.
* Less help needed - because more is automated.

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standard work buttons
AutoDraw Standard Work Chart with the push of a single button

New Systems2win menu appears whenever you open Excel or Word

Stencil of Link Icons
to easily insert hyperlinks to related documents

international language icons
Flag icons
to link to Work Instructions
in multiple languages

Other templates commonly used for Standard Work

This training within industry template works best when combined with the other Lean Tools and templates that come bundled with it.

In fact, the spaghetti map Layout Diagram is also known as a Standard Work Chart.

While Standard Work is the right tool for highly repetitive processes, the Cross Functional Flowchart is often a better choice for less repetitive processes (such as order entry and most Lean Administration processes)

The visual Work Instructions template is especially of interest for training new-hires, temporaries, and cross-trained workers - by providing pictures of each step, and written training instructions that are far more detailed than is appropriate for Standard Work Instructions.

This Standard Work template comes bundled with an entire suite of
Lean tools to give your people everything they need to improve your process AND prevent backsliding into old habit patterns - so that you can (finally) start ratcheting your hard-earned gains.

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