What is a Standard & How to create it easily?
Plus 2 Quotes and 1 Quiz to kindle your thoughts.
Many people think Standards or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are difficult to create and follow. What is a Standard? A simple way to teach yourself and others to repeat a process again and again without variations / defects.
You can list your daily activities in a sheet of paper to avoid missing out. That is a Standard. You can label things in your workplace to reduce searching. That is a Standard. You can use colour code to identify good and bad products. That is a Standard. Anyone can easily follow the same thing without doubts / clarifications.
Benefits of Standards:
Teaches the Best, Easiest and Safest way to do a job
Measure performance
Preserve the knowledge / Expertise
Helps in Training others
Prevent the recurrences of the problems / defects
These standards are the major difference between Organized / Systematic units and unorganised factories. Unorganized factories repeat the same mistakes again and again, whereas Organised units, create a standard immediately and stop the recurrence of the issues.
If you think your unit is very unorganised, look at whether standards exist or not? Most probably, they won’t. Start creating standards and start improving.
What do you think? Pls let me know in comments.
2 Quotes for the Week:
"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few." — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“The basis of the Toyota production system is the absolute elimination of waste.” — Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System
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1 Quiz for the Week:
What is the primary goal of Poka-Yoke in manufacturing?
a) Increase production speed
b) Reduce costs by automating processes
c) Prevent defects by eliminating human error
d) Train employees on new skills
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Thank You.
Ananth Palaniappan
Poke Yoke -Prevent Defects by eliminating human error....
Either by automation or by AI enabled Human Working or Intensive Training or Coaching.