The structure behind Start-up Standardized Work

"Standardized work" is not just a production thing. I am not just talking about the application. The construction of good standardized work requires participation from management and all functionalities. "Standardized work" is a summary of good leadership and multifunctional cooperation. When management & multifunctional staff work together with the production, we can have good standardized work.

Let's look at the "Body" of standardized work to complete the topic of starting work.

There was this factory where we were working on standardized work implementation. One day, people on the shop floor looked confused. When I asked them what was going on, I found out that the quality department left a list of roughly thirty items that each process must inspect before the shift starts. The quantity and content of the work are unbelievable, but most inspections mainly focus on incoming parts. Why was it necessary for the customer process to do an inspection? Also, what good does it do to inspect incoming goods before the shift starts? Fortunately, the quality manager was an open-minded person. The manager mentioned that the quality team has panicked with the poor quality of incoming materials, which led to such behaviors. We worked together to decide what was really needed on the assembly side. At the same time, the quality team established temporary countermeasures to stop the bad incoming material quality.

When you think about the start of work, a worker must complete multifunctional tasks.

Here are some of the potential tasks;

• Labor Absentee & substitute allocation
• HR news, celebration
• Stretch, exercise
• Autonomous maintenance
• Preventive maintenance
• Tool check
• Material check
• Quality check (Dummy test)
• Production schedule
• Etc.

When multi-functions and managers do not care how to complete these multifunctional tasks and push them to the shop floor, we create chaos.

This does not mean that we should not add multifunctional tasks. The management needs to understand the importance of adding the task. Then the shop floor needs to Kaizen the current tasks. At the same time, functions need to summarize and realize the concepts. After all, the collaboration of the "Body" is the only way to make the standardized work function.

TPS says that the "Shop floor is a mirror of management." If we see contradictions between different functions on the shop floor, we must challenge the current structure of management.?