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 Templates

Choose the right tool to document and improve different types of processes.
All of these Excel templates come with the Lean Tools bundle

Standard Work template

Standard Work Combination Sheet

5 tools in 1:
  1) concise standard work instructions
  2) value add analysis & pie chart
  3) work load balancing & bar chart
  4) SMED changeover setup reduction
  5) standard work chart

Learn more about this Excel template

Standard Work Combination Sheet and Value Add Analysis
Lean videoStandard Work
training videos

Standard Work Chart

Draw spaghetti maps and layout diagrams with this easy-to-use Excel template
(without the cost and learning curve of Visio).

Learn more about the Standard Work Chart.

Layout Diagram Excel template

Cross Functional Flowchart

While the Standard Work Sheet is the right tool for highly repetitive processes,
the Cross Functional Flowchart is often a better choice for less repetitive processes

(think sales order entry, engineering changes, and most Lean Administration processes)

Cross functional flowchart

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.

Job Instructions Excel template

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.

Job Breakdown Instructor Notes

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.

standard operating procedure software template

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...
does that mean that everyone will actually do it that way?

A management axiom is: "Expect people to do the right thing - and be prepared to correct."

Lean Kaizen Standard Work Audit Excel template

These are some of the many Excel templates for Standard Work
that all come with the Lean Templates bundle

Also see the Leader Standard Work templates that come with the Kaizen bundle


Standard Work Procedures

The Standard Work template is 5 tools in 1

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

 

Standard Work Combination Sheet Excel template


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 Combination Sheet Excel template


Standard Work Training
& Demo Videos

Standard Work Videos & Training

Additional training relevant to this template for standardized work

The Sample and Help worksheets of every template
always contain training relevant to THAT template

Translations available for immediate delivery include:

  • Spanish: Instrucciones de trabajo estándar
  • Portuguese: Instruções de Trabalho Padrão
  • Chinese: 标准工作说明

 

Also see the other Lean tools
that come bundled with your Standard Work template

 

Additions & Corrections

to the training found on the Sample and Help worksheets

Instructions for how to mark the layout diagram picture to be automatically copied when you click the Generate Chart button:

Select your Layout Diagram image, then in the Name box (just to the left of the Formula Bar), type the word "Layout" and then press the Enter key.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make sure your sound is on
Video Help

Introduction to Standard Work Standard Work - video

 

Layout Diagram video spaghetti diagram video

 

Standard Work video standard work video

 

What's New
Lean Standard Work standard work video

 

Process Time and Cycle Time cycle time video


The Three Basic Elements of Standard Work

  1. Takt Time

    The rate of customer demand.
    Process Cycle Time must satisfy this demand.

  2. Work sequence

    The order of steps that must be performed
    (operator work, walk, & wait time, and machine time)

  3. Standard work in process inventory (WIP)

    The amount of inventory normally stocked at specified places within the process
    in quantities sufficient to facilitate process flow while minimizing the 7 deadly wastes.


Standard Work Template

  Features & Benefits
  Auto-draw a Standard Work Combination Sheet

with a single click of a button

  Create a separate time chart for each operator

to provide uncluttered instructions for each individual team member

  or display all operators in a single chart

to visually analyze what each operator is doing at each moment of the work cycle

  Easily add hyperlinks

to related training materials, documents, and videos

  Use either stopwatch or video time observation

allowing you to choose the most efficient way to observe each unique standard work procedure

  Fully customizable header fields

to capture the data that is most important to YOUR processes

  Revision Control

Revision Control Log as well as system for handwritten approvals of proposed changes

  Value Add Pie Chart

easily personalized to analyze your own user-defined types of waste

  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

  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

  Free online Lean Dictionary and other online training

to teach your people what they need to know to use their powerful new Excel templates

  Draw the chart with or without bar labels

to precisely align the chart bars with their corresponding rows - in different versions of Excel

  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

  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

  Dropdown lists

to populate fields more easily and without typos

  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

  Use all the power of Excel to link data to or from another worksheet

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

with special features for Cycle Time to include or exclude external set-up time

  Entire suite of lean tools for process improvement

standard work, layouts, flow charts, work instructions, standard operating procedures...
everything needed to analyze & improve any type of process,
and to train and manage people to correctly perform better


New features
for Standardized Work Instructions

Video: What's New in the Standard Work template (8 mins) Lean video

July 2011

October 2010

July 2010

July 2009

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.

 

See what else is new

 

Standard Work Pix

Illustrate with pictures

 

Revision Log

 

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

 
 

"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

     
     

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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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Template Benefits

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

You save hours..

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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