When talking to most Lean Six Sigma Consultants they will tell you the 2 lean tools that you start with are 5S and Standard Work. Looking for a simple way to describe the Standard Work process, I ran across Systems2win and their set of tools. I found them quite interesting and have started “Testing” them out. I wonder has anyone else tried them?
Here is a description and a picture of their template. Tools for standardized work are the most important tools in your Lean toolkit – because they avoid backsliding into old habits
The Standard Work Sheet Excel template is 5 tools in 1:
- Value Add Analysis (auto-calculates pie chart)
- Work Balancing (auto-draws work load balancing bar chart in relation to Takt Time)
- Standard Work Instructions & Analysis
- Quick Changeover tool for setup reduction.
- Standard Work Combination Sheet visual time chart.
What makes these templates unique is that they are built on Excel spreadsheet platform.
You have options to:
- Auto-draw a Standard Work Combination Sheet with a single click of a button.
- Create a separate time chart for each operator, or display all operators in a single chart.
- Use either stopwatch or video Time Observation to observe and time your standard work procedures
- Split your Value Add Pie Chart into your own user-defined types of waste
- Plot as many as 4 chart lines – for Takt Time, Target Cycle Time, Cycle Time, and even a 4th user-defined chart line (perhaps for out of cycle work?)
Draw the chart with or without labels - Include up to 200 lines of work elements on a single chart
(and spread even larger processes over multiple charts – perhaps with summary data rolling up to each higher level) - Define your own header data field labels
- Link to or from another worksheet for calculations 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
I think it is a pretty unique product. You can download a free trial but I think it will take a commitment to use these templates. So if it is free, you may just never commit.