Description
Book SynopsisThis book, the first in The One-Day Expert series dedicated to Standardized Work, is about operator performance measurement. Implementing Standardized Work: Measuring Operators' Performance explains how to measure the performance of operators quickly and simply without sacrificing accuracy.
Detailing how to identify the most efficient operators and how to monitor their improvement over time, it describes a method that has been applied with success for years in the automotive industry. Grounded in one of the basic laws of factory physicsmastery of variabilitythis method can be automated very easily and thereby requires no labor consumption.
In this episode of The One-Day Expert, Thomas, a plant director in an industrial group, is reassigned to another plant that is losing money. Morale in the plant is very low and the staff is pessimistic about the plant's future and is distrustful of senior management. Thomas' urgent mission is to tur
Table of Contents
Introduction. A Strange Day in a New Plant: The "Beheaded Chicken". Variability Is the Enemy of Production. Training Day One: Introducing Standardized Work. The Hidden Cost of Human Variability. How to Measure Operator Performance? The Variability Index. A-Rank, B-Rank, C-Rank and D-Rank Operators. Initial Operator Performance Mapping (Opm). Detailed Standardized Work Deployment Steps. Epilogue: The Quest for Mode 80.
