Courtesy of ICU medical's Brent Weichers below is a video of his speaking session on 'Using Excel, automate the creation and use of the Standard Work process' to Build a Thriving Enterprise that took place at Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference.
Session Information:
Using Excel, automate the creation and use of the Standard Work process
When establishing or updating standard work, the documents needed, Operator Load charts and each individual standard work combo sheet can be a time-consuming task. What if there was an easier way to create those documents?
When conducting time study on a new process or an established process, completing all the documents for a playbook set to a certain takt is time-consuming. Another issue is there is no “playground” to move people around electronically attempting to level load the line. In most cases, we must take the time to physically move operators around and re-time the work. All with the goal of finding that magic balance.
What we will see is with Excel, almost all the processes to document standard work and produce the required documents can be automated. In addition, with the same spreadsheet, we have a playground to take work from one operator, give it to another and see immediately what happens to our operator load chart. Then, once the best possible scenario is documented, a single click prints all the required documents.
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About The Speaker:
Brent Weichers,
Senior Director of Continuous Improvement for North America,
ICU medical.
Brent Weichers has 35 years of lean transformation experience, with Toyota and Danaher as the biggest portion of his professional background. He has trained agencies of the federal government and major corporations through their lean journey. Brent is currently the Senior Director of Continuous Improvement for North America for ICU medical. He is based out of the Phoenix, AZ. area.