Standardized Work - Workshop

Operational Problem:
  • Too high cycle times
  • The productivity of the employees is too low
  • Area usage is too low (Waste of space)
  • Complaints of employees „overwork"
  • Increase of overtime
Workshop name:

Standards, Standardized Work

Procedure of the workshop:
  1. Basic training standardized work
  2. Current state of the manufacturing process
  3. Timing of the manual operations (Cycle time analysis, „REFA“)
  4. Determination of the „balance loss“
  5. Reengineering of the Layout
  6. Reengineering  of the manual working places (Material situation, Tool presentation, Workstation, etc)
  7. Documentation of the workflows in standard
  8. Training of the standard workflow
  9. Measure definition
  10. Tracking of key-figures (Productivity)
  11. Pilot-area and Coaching
  12. Planning of the standardized Work Roll-Out
  13. Review
Results:
  • 15 % Reduction of area
  • Double-digit increase of productivity
  • Reduction of overtime-costs
  • Higher employee satisfaction
Effect on business goal:
  • Increase of the productivity of the employees
  • Reduction of area/space m²
  • Reduction of overtimes
  • Reduction of employees complaints
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