Standard Work
Tools for standardized work are the most important tools in your Lean toolkit -
because they avoid backsliding into old habits
Templates for Standardized Work
Standard Work TemplatesChoose the right tool to document and improve different types of processes. |
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Standard Work Combination Sheet 5 tools in 1: Learn more about this Excel template |
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Standard Work Chart Draw spaghetti maps and layout diagrams with this easy-to-use Excel template Learn more about the Standard Work Chart. |
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Cross Functional Flowchart While the Standard Work Sheet is the right tool for highly
repetitive processes, (think sales order entry, engineering changes, and most Lean Administration processes) |
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Job Instructions The visual Work Instructions template is the right tool 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. |
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Job Breakdown Sheet Instructor Notes used by a supervisor or trainer to prepare to effectively train a worker using the TWI Job Instructions training method. |
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Standard Operating Procedure This simple Word template is popular for documenting office procedures and less repetitive processes. It comes with online help for how to insert screen shots and images, use numbered outlines, Link Icons, dynamic Table of Contents, and more features of Microsoft Word that your people probably would not use if they did not have this easy-to-use Word template with online training and videos. |
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Standard Work Audit Just because you trained everyone, and got them to swear on their mother's grave to agree to always do it the best way that everyone agreed to do it... A management axiom is: "Expect people to do the right thing - and be prepared to correct." |
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These are some of the many Excel templates for Standard Work Also see the Leader Standard Work templates that come with the Kaizen bundle |
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Standard Work Procedures
The Standard Work 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
Simply click a button to auto-draw the standard work
table,
which is a great tool to analyze a process to
identify and eliminate waste,
and can then be taped to the wall near the work station - to provide visual standard work instructions.

Standard Work Training
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The Three Basic Elements of Standard Work
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Standard Work Template
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| Auto-draw a Standard Work Combination Sheet with a single click of a button |
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| Create a separate time chart for each operator to provide uncluttered instructions for each individual team member |
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| or display all operators in a single chart
to visually analyze what each operator is doing at each moment of the work cycle |
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| Easily add hyperlinks to related training materials, documents, and videos |
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| Use either stopwatch or video time observation
allowing you to choose the most efficient way to observe each unique standard work procedure |
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| Fully customizable header fields
to capture the data that is most important to YOUR processes |
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| Revision Control
Revision Control Log as well as system for handwritten approvals of proposed changes |
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| Value Add Pie Chart easily personalized to analyze your own user-defined types of waste |
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| Auto-draws bar chart for Work, Walk, Wait, and Machine Time
saving you from the chore of erasing and re-drawing every time anything changes |
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| Plot as many as 4 "target" chart lines for Cycle Time, Takt Time, Target Cycle Time, and even a 4th user-defined target chart line |
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| Free online Lean Dictionary and other online training
to teach your people what they need to know to use their powerful new Excel templates |
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| Draw the chart with or without bar labels
to precisely align the chart bars with their corresponding rows - in different versions of Excel |
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| A single chart can have anywhere from 2 to 200 lines of work elements
scaling to display the exact number of rows you need - without annoying blank rows |
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| Gracefully handles large processes with more than 200 rows by spreading the large process over multiple charts - with summary data rolling up to each higher level |
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| Dropdown lists
to populate fields more easily and without typos |
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| Table of standard work times
can be user-defined to auto-populate the typical standard work time for each Work Element in your dropdown list |
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| Use all the power of Excel to link data to or from another worksheet such as Working Time Available, product mix, or master scheduling |
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| Paste a picture of your Spaghetti Diagram on the same page with your Standard Work Combination Table |
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| Use this as a Quick Changeover tool for lean SMED setup reduction
with special features for Cycle Time to include or exclude external set-up time |
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| Entire suite of lean tools for process improvement
standard work, layouts, flow charts, work instructions, standard operating procedures... |
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Illustrate with pictures
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"There is no improvement without standard work." ~ Taiichi Ohno - Toyota
"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material." ~ Henry Ford |
Suggested Reading and Resources
This Standard Work template comes bundled with an
entire suite of Lean tools
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