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News Release from: American Technical Publishers | Subject: Standard Work for the Shopfloor
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 September 2002
Book sets the standard for standard
work!
'Standard Work for the Shopfloor'is a set of work procedures that combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability in manufacturing.
The newest addition to American Technical Publishers' lean bookstore is Standard Work for the Shopfloor Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability in manufacturing
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Standard Work for the Shopfloor teaches manufacturing production teams and managers how to implement basic standard work concepts and applications.
It presents the main concepts and steps of implementing standards in a simple, illustrated format that is easy to read and understand.
Standard Work for the Shopfloor provides manufacturers with a twelve-step process for standardization and teaches them four steps for creating standard work procedures.
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The four steps are create a parts production capacity worktable; create a standard operations combination chart; create a work methods chart; and finally, create a standard operations chart, which is the standard work sheet.
It includes examples, charts, and forms to illustrate the process.
Standard Work for the Shopfloor also gives readers ten guidelines for maintaining standard work.
It offers a number of specific applications of standardization to help the reader identify improvement targets for specific purposes.
The standard work procedures can be used for new-employee training, quality design, evaluating improvement ideas, and production management.
Benefits of standardization and standard work include reduced variability, reduced waste, reduced costs, improved quality, and shorter, more predictable lead times.
It also makes it easier for operators to learn new operations and contribute improvement ideas.
Benefits of user-friendly standards also include more reliable and efficient operations and improved employee morale.
Standard Work for the Shopfloor was written with innovative instructional features to facilitate ease of learning.
It contains chapter overviews and summaries to help the reader focus their reading, and questions throughout the book help the reader apply the material to their own workplace.
It also contains numerous drawings and illustrations and margin icons that flag definitions, key points, and other highlights.
Standard work and standardization drive continuous improvement activities.
By adhering to standard work, operators and production teams will continue to benefit from other lean tools already in place.
Standard Work for the Shopfloor is available through American Technical Publishers and sells for GBP 20.00.
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