Product Details: Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. Work is described precisely in terms of cycle time, work in process, sequence, takt time, layout, and the inventory needed to conduct the activity. Standard work begins as an improvement baseline and evolves into a reliable method. It establishes the best activities and sequence steps to maximize performance and minimize waste.
In this book you will learn about:
The characteristics of standards
Key benefits and applications of standardization
Standard work concepts and calculations
Standard work steps and documentation
Using standard work manuals, charts, and worksheets
Cell staffing (line balancing and full work)
Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Like all our Shopfloor Series books, Standard Work for the Shopfloor includes innovative instructional features that are the signature of the Shopfloor Series. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools such as pull production techniques in the hands of your entire workforce.
Key learning features include:
Well-organized, and easy-to-assimilate learning
Chapter overviews and summaries
Questions throughout each chapter to help you apply the learning to your own workplace
Drawings and illustrations
Margin icons that flag definitions, main points, and other highlights
ISBN# 1563272733
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Published: 2002
Pages: 100
Binding: Paperback
Item# 70B7001 |
