Video: Standard Work
Load Balancing

Standard Work Load Balancing

Topics in this Video

• Following the instructions for your Standard Work template, you should have already...

  1) Entered your Initial Data
  2) Entered your Time Observations
  3) Documented your Work Instructions

• Operator Work Load Balance Chart — 1:00

  Optionally move or copy it

  Optionally display fewer operators

• Perhaps also use your Yamazumi template — 2:45

  Copy only rows that happen every Run Cycle, then Paste Special > Values

  Time-saving Tip: Filter for Frequency code of either blank or Run,
  and then use Copy Visible Cells

  Or if you used Frequency codes for Product Mix, then follow these special instructions.

  How to use your Yamazumi Chart template for greater visibility of Work Elements, and faster brainstorming to quickly rearrange and assess the impacts of "what if" improvement ideas

• Value Add Analysis — 7:15

  Value Add codes:
  Value Add, Non-Value Add, Walk, Wait, Waste

  For unlimited user-defined VA codes, leave the VA column blank, (which will show as "???" on the pie chart), then choose your codes from the 'Cat' field

• User-Defined Categories — 9:00

  to Filter Category codes that you can optionally define on the DV sheet.

  Most commonly used for filtering for
  Work Elements related to Changeovers.

  Unhide and/or copy unlimited user-defined columns.

• Don't insert rows !!! — 11:30

  Instead, copy a similar blank row
  using Insert Copied Cells or Shift Down and Copy.

  And move entire rows
  using Move Cut Cells or Shift Down and Move.