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“Standard Work for the Shopfloor” is an essential guide for implementing standard work procedures in manufacturing environments. The book explains how standard work combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. It describes work precisely in terms of cycle time, work in process, sequence, time, layout, and inventory needed for activities. Starting as an improvement baseline, standard work evolves into a reliable method that establishes the best activities and sequence steps to maximize performance and minimize waste. The book covers the characteristics of standards, key benefits and applications of standardization, standard work concepts and calculations, steps and documentation, and the use of manuals, charts, and worksheets. It also addresses cell staffing, line balancing, and full work. Part of the Shopfloor Series, this book aims to place powerful and proven improvement tools in the hands of the entire workforce, making it a valuable resource for anyone involved in manufacturing improvement.
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