What is Standard Work & Labour Balancing and how will it help my workplace?

Standard Work tools develop and document the most efficient methods for your team to conduct work on the most common activities. This will ensure that your processes are completed in the most effective means with regards to quality and efficiency. This also allows for new team members to be easily trained using the best practices and in the shortest time. It provides a standard approach towards the activities and tasks.
Once the data for each process is gathered, it then allows for multiple processes within the value stream to be balanced. This will help your process achieve greater output with the same labour allocations.
This project ties in closely with OEE and Capacity Planning.

• Clear understanding of the optimum way to complete tasks
• Transparency in process requirements
• Accurate time studies for each of the specific tasks for each variant

Labour Balancing provides:

• Encouragement of single piece flow in the process
• Best utilisation of available labour
• Setting of process rhythm
• Elimination of bottlenecks and creation pace makers

Vative Standard Work and Labour Balancing:

• Only useful for repetitive processes
• Only basic MS Excel is needed
• Is linked to Metrics and performance measures
• Drives towards a flexible work force
• Is the base data required to develop Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs