Work Instructions
for Product Families

Easier Data Collection for OEE

Overall Equipment Effectiveness continues to gain popularity as a powerful way to identify where to focus attention for process improvements,

and to evaluate the success of attempted counter-measures.

Your Systems2win OEE template enables you to use all of the powerful filtering and charting features of Excel to quickly and easily analyze the Availability, Quality, and Performance of your bottleneck equipment — to spotlight and eliminate the Six Big Losses.

And... it empowers you with an ingenious system to automatically collect and analyze data from multiple sources, with the click of a button.

Manual Data Collection

At the request of one of our customers,
we recently released a new template

designed to be printed and filled in with a pencil or pen, and the data later keyed into your OEE template.

The OEE template already had all the 'hard stuff' that would cost you a fortune to pay your internal Black Belts to try to recreate.

This new template is a drop-dead simple Word form. But what our customers have found is that even the time that it takes to create an extremely simple form like this is still non-value-add time for your internal people, and the end result is often far inferior to the consistently professional, standardized forms developed, supported, and continuously improved by Systems2win.

Do you have an idea?

Every day we are listening, and responding to your ideas and your requests for what might make your process improvement tools and systems better and easier.

If you have been pondering an idea for how to improve any one of your 150+ Systems2win templates, please use our Feedback Form to bring your idea to our attention.

Why re-invent?

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What if Our Items are Similar but Different?

The 10 items in our product family are similar, but different.

Most the steps are the same for most of the items, but a few items in the product family are made just a little differently from the others.

How do we handle this?

Option 1) Write vague instructions

Rely on tribal knowledge for people to "just know what's different".

And then be willing to live with the increased rework, and the reduced quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

Option 2) Make separate Work Instructions

Make a separate Work Instructions document for every item in the family.

And then be willing to live with the non-value-add time that it will take to reproduce the identical steps in 10 different documents, and the inevitable mistakes as those documents slowly get out of sync with each other.

Option 3) Use your Systems2win template

In the 'Show' column next to each Step, leave it blank for steps common to every product in the family, or enter the part number (or other ID Code) for only those items that have that Step.

And then when you click the button to Generate Report, it will correctly hide or show only the correct Steps for each item in the family, and will correctly renumber and reshuffle the Steps...

so that you can easily maintain detailed Work Instructions for every product in a family.

What if we don't make products?

A 'Product Family' can also be a 'Service Family'.

Perhaps most Steps are the same for a group of hospital procedures, but just a few things get done differently for this type of lab test vs. that one.

Or perhaps most steps are the same for processing back office transactions, but just a few things get done differently for this type of purchase order vs. that one.

EVERY process can (and usually should) be documented with thorough Work Instructions,

and 'Product Families' are a pretty common challenge faced by just about everyone.

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Learn More about how
your Systems2win Work Instructions template
can dramatically improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness of your Work Instructions
for your Product Families

Even if you already own a license,
you can download the latest trials any time.