Creating Standard Work: Get Your Company on the Lean Path to Improvement

Sustain: Ensuring Compliance

The team performing the work should be responsible for auditing the standardized process once it is in place. Supervisors and operators will track and determine if the process is being followed and, if not, determine why. Perhaps someone has found a better way to perform the process and can make suggestions for change. The end goal is improvement, not strictly maintaining a stated process.

Want to learn more about Standard Work and implementing a Lean manufacturing program? We have great resources for you!

• Complimentary Articles, Glossary of Lean and Related Terms,
  and the Lean Manufacturing Assessment Tool.
• CI resources page for valuable information like Article Collections, Books, andWebinars
• The 2013 Continuous Improvement Conference
  April 7–10, 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana