Summer Special Ends Aug 31

FMEA Major Upgrade

In early August, the FMEA template was upgraded for several new capabilities.

(The Failure Mode Effects and Analysis template is a cornerstone for risk analysis)

Related forms in 1 workbook

When you click the menu item to 'Open a Blank Sheet', it now asks you to choose which type of sheet you want:

1. FMEA (which can be DFMEA or PFMEA)
2. Process Flow Diagram
3. Control Plan

so that you can now have all of these related documents as worksheets within a single Excel workbook.

Linked Data

One big advantage of having related forms in 1 workbook is that it makes it easier to share a single source for linked data.

In other words...

Let's say that you release a revision to a Control Method that is used in 135 rows in your FMEA and 96 rows in the Prototype Control Plan and 85 rows in the Production Control Plan.

Change that Control Method in one place (on your DV sheet), and it is instantly updated in all 316 places.

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And yes, the FMEA template (with Control Plan and Process Flow Diagram) is one of the free trial templates — so you can test drive it for yourself

What else is new?

5S and Lean Assessment

On the Scorecard sheet, when you click the button to 'Choose Source Data', the Comments text box next to the radar chart now auto-populates with your summary Comments for your chosen date in time.

Because, as any experienced 5S Leader will agree, the Comments are the most important part of the assessment — not just the score.

So now when you choose a past date...
you see not only the scores for that date,
but also the Comments for that same date.

Cause and Effect Matrix

the Pareto Diagram now refreshes instantly.

Standard Work template

You can now analyze your video time observations in your choice of seconds, minutes, or hours.

Why Re-invent?

Put a pencil to it... How much would you pay your high-level Black Belts to try to make similar changes to their own home-grown templates? What opportunity costs were missed while they sat in a corner with their computer?

Why reinvent?

(rather than getting out in the gemba improving some processes)