New Horizons
in Standardized Work:
Techniques
for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement
Enabling management to verify that processes are
being performed correctly and in an efficient manner, standardized work provides limitless
opportunities for process improvements. So much so, that it has become a vital component
of improvement efforts in Lean enterprise systems.
New Horizons in Standardized Work:
Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement is an all-inclusive guide to
applying standardized work principles to virtually any business in any industry. It
facilitates a fundamental understanding of standardized work principles and the logic
behind their development, so readers can successfully extend and adapt them to their own
work situation.
It also:
- Supplies an accessible introduction to
standardized work, from a cyclic perspective
- Explains how to instill and maintain quality
in work processes right from the get go
- Provides the foundational basis required to
apply standardized work concepts to a wide range of work situations
- Includes several appendices with helpful
tips and problem-solving tools
In a step-by-step format, this book discusses the
relationship of the work period and the takt time, as well as the importance of the three
main worker interface levels in job design. It includes an array of examples that
demonstrate how the concepts discussed can be applied across a range of
industries—including health care, construction, business processes, and food services.
Table of Contents
What is
Standardized Work?
A Foundation for Stability The Best Method at the Moment A Basis for Improvement How
do we get Standardized Work?
The Required Components for Standardized Work Types of Standardized Work
Observation
Making Observations and Formulating New Questions How to Break Down Work Element
Observations for Standardized Work Establishing Work Element Standards & Graphical
Notations Methods for Work Element Data Evaluation of the Data The Importance of Observing
the True Situation Learning to See Below the Surface
Cyclic Standardized Work
Work-Component Types The Effects of Variation How to Document Standardized Work: The
Standardized Work Chart Tools for Standardized Work: The Work-Combination Table The
Importance of Geographic Relationship Making the Problems Visible
Long-Cycle
Standardized Work
Applying Standardized Work Principles to Long-Cycle Applications The Concept of
Parallel Work Steps Other Cyclic Standardized Work Issues The Concept of Takt Looking for
Other Ways to Express the Concept of Takt
Job Design
for the Worker : Understanding the Levels of Interfacing
Decoupling-When is Protection from Interruption Needed?
Protection Expressed by Units of Time Effects of Coupled Jobs Using the Interface Levels
for Design of Good Standardized Work Striking a Balance: Man and Machine Some New Rules
and Some New Tools
Noncyclic Standardized Work
Parallel Work Steps or Tasks on Demand Workers on Patrol Merging Takt Time and the
Work Period Assisting the Worker: Standardized Work Drives Equipment Needs Assisting the
Worker: Tools for Complex or Infrequent Tasks Applying Standardized Work to Transactional
Processes In Summary
179 pages, Paperback