Lean Standard Work

Learn the importance of Standard Work as being one of the most powerful tools within the Lean Six Sigma toolbox. It is the basis for Kaizen and continuous improvement and will start to create a new discipline within the organization. This app will allow you to document current best practices, analyze them, and create new and better standards to ensure improvement are sustained over time. This app will significantly help to eliminate process variation, and allow for ease of training all employees to the new, improved standard.

This app is designed to:
- Convey the importance of standard work
- Provide an understanding on how standard work is the basis for ALL continuous improvement activities
- Explain the various tools of Standardized Work Time Observation Sheet, Standardized Work Chart, Standardized Work Job Instruction Sheet, and Standardized Work Combination Table
Create customized Standard Work Combination Table, output it as a PDF, retrieve previous settings as needed
- Record, assign, and track Action Items
- Create and conduct an assessment, output it as a pdf, along with guidance on how to improve assessment scores
- Provide Sensei Tips as additional learnings
- Provide access to the Excel Standard Work Chart, Standard Work Time Observation Sheet, Standard Work Job Instruction Sheet, and Standard Work Combination Table worksheets for customization
- Create some interest or fun by providing a Lean Sigma puzzle

Look for more apps in our Practical Lean Six Sigma Series.