Business Excellence Consortium

Visual Standard Work Instructions

(Part of Lean Associate Certificate)

This ½ day session is designed to introduce the use and maintenance of Visual Standard Work Instructions for Process Owners at all Levels of the enterprise. Through the use of this powerful tool, associates at the work site, will provide feedback for product design, product warranty, and shorten the learning curve for all associates. This helps to create a culture of continuous improvement by consistently improving and Error Proofing the process.

Content:

• Define visual standard work instruction
• Discover the best possible means to create visual standard work instructions within your organization
• Define the process owner’s responsibility in use of standard work instructions
• Define the TQC (Total Quality Control) aspects of standard work instructions
• Define the maintenance of Visual Standard Work including Revision Control
  

Upon completion you will be able to:

• Understand the critical importance of how visual standard work instructions with TQC supports error proofing
• How to integrate Visual Standard Work Instructions with TQC into the Product Development System
• Understand how visual standard work instructions with TQC provides critical feedback for product design for manufacturability, process design and process safety improvement
• Understand how the power of visual standard work instructions dramatically shortens the learning curve even in multicultural work forces. “A picture is worth a thousand words in any language”
• Understand the value to re-orient process owners to work that is infrequently scheduled “re-orientation to the previous learning curve
• Understand how visual standard work instructions support quality control within the process, “process owner quality self check at a glance”
  

The Business Excellence Consortium at the Milwaukee School of Engineering has partnered with WCM Associates, a consulting and book publishing company, dedicated to the dissemination and the implementation of advanced techniques of world class manufacturing. This partnership combines real world experience with a proven method of knowledge transfer resulting in high impact training and implementation support!