Standardise to Stabilise | Within Walking Distance | WWD18
Channel: impi!
Date: 10/12/2022

As a manager, you want to remove as much uncertainty from your processes as possible.  You seek stable conditions, safety, productivity, trouble free customers and a happy workforce (and vice versa).  Standardising work is a good place to start.

Tracey Richardson defines a standard as “the best known documented method at a given moment that we all agree to be accountable to until we improve it together.”

Some of the benefits of standardising work are:
- stable process conditions
- greater safety, quality & productivity
- reduced operator and management load
- baseline for improvement
- etc.

The best known method to standardise is SDCA (Standardise, Do, Check, Adjust)

References
- Standardised Work by the Lean Institute. https://www.lean.org/lexicon-terms/standardized-work/. You can download the e-book associated with the article
- Article by Greg Jacobson from Kai Nexus:  https://blog.kainexus.com/improvement-disciplines/lean/what-you-are-missing-if-you-dont-use-standard-work
- Paper presented by Dr. Charles A. Liedtke. Applying the Four Student Model During the SDCA Cycle. https://strategicimprovementsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/LIEDTKE_ICQ_2014_SHARE_FINAL_V2_PDF.pdf
- Great book by Tracey Richardson. The Toyota Engagement Equation: How to Understand and Implement Continuous Improvement Thinking in Any Organization. https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Engagement-Equation-Improvement-Organization/dp/1259837424/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6J2KAJKKEBOB&keywords=tracey+richardson+to&qid=1670661323&sprefix=tracey+richardson+to%2Caps%2C320&sr=8-1