The first book in The One-Day Expert series detailed the initial steps that Thomas, a young, high-potential plant manager in an industrial group, took to assess his plant’s situation through measurement of operators’ performance. The second book in the series, Implementing Standardized Work: Writing Standardized Work Forms focuses on the next step of this assessment—writing Standardized Work forms to help identify variability and waste.

• Summarizes key points after each step to reinforce understanding
• Contains many illustrations to help make application easy
• Includes access to additional materials on the book’s website

Since an operation can only be standardized if it is repeatable, the most important requirement for a real application of Standardized Work is minimum stability in the process. The book explains how to estimate the stability level of a process by performing process analysis. It also presents a multistage bar called Yamazumihyo to help you perform your own process analysis.

After reading this book you will understand how to use Standardized Work forms as the starting point to establishing a safe and ergonomic work place that delivers quality products in an efficient manner.

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Dear reader you will find here several files to download. They will be of great support in the implementation of the methods described in the book « Implementation Standardized Work: Writing Standardized Work forms. » Here is the list of files provided:

– 1 blank collection sheet that will help you collect data on the shop floor and determine the time (min, mode and max) of each measurement step of the worker’s cycle. It is a classical and pretty common document. However we wanted to share it in case your own version in not handily around.

– 3 blank documents to create you own Standardized Work forms without starting from scratch. You only need to download the file, plug in your own data and include your company’s logo: Operator_Work_Instructions_TheOneDayExpert.xls , Standardized_Work_Chart_blank_TheOneDayExpert.xls , and Standardized_work_Combination_table_blank_TheOneDayExpert.xls .

– 1 Excel file that draws automatically the combination table: Auto_Standardized_Work_Combination_table_blank_TheOneDayExpert.xls . You simply need to enter manual times, wait times and machine times and press the button. It works in most of cases and will save you plenty of time.

– 1 Excel file that combines a data collection sheet with Yamazumihyo chart: Yamazumihyo_Data_Collection_TheOneDayExpert.xls . It helps draw the Yamazumihyo chart from times collected on the shop floor. It gives you the possibility to keep the history of each stage of your improvement process therefore making it easier to visualize changes over time.