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Weed Instrument Company
- PO Box 300
- Round Rock, TX 78680-0300
- 800-880-9333
- 512-434-2800
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A method of creating a self-sustaining culture that perpetuates an organized, clean and effective work place.
| Simplify: |
Clearly distinguish between what is needed and what is not needed to perform a given work process. |
| Straighten: |
Organize those things that are needed, making it easy for users to locate, use and return them. |
| Scrub: |
Clean all aspects of the area, including floors, machines and furniture. |
| Stabilize: |
Maintain and improve the first three S's in addition to personal orderliness and neatness. |
| Sustain: |
Achieve the discipline of habit of maintaining the correct 5S procedures. |
Systems that enable anyone to immediately assess the current status of an operation or given process at a glance, regardless of their knowledge of the process
Standard work is a tool that defines the interaction of people and their environment when processing a product or service. It details the motion of the operator and the sequence of action. It provides a routine for consistency of an operation and a basis for improvement. It details the best process we currently know and understand. Tomorrow it should be better (continuous improvement) and the standard work should be revised to incorporate the improvement. There can be no improvement without a basis or standard.
Standard Work has three central elements; TAKT time, Standard Work Sequence, and Standard Work in Process. Standard Work (as a tool) establishes a routine/habit/pattern for repetitive tasks, makes managing (scheduling, resource allocation) easier, establishes the relationship between person and environment, provides a basis for improvement by defining the normal and highlighting the abnormal, and it prohibits backsliding.
A means of communicating need for products or services. It is generally used to trigger the movement of material where one piece flow cannot be achieved, but is also used to "signal" upstream processes to produce product for downstream processes.
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