Comments on: The Limits of Work Standards https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/ Organize your Industry! Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:04:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Andrey A. https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/#comment-118920 Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:26:05 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=29489#comment-118920 The trend that’s been accelerating here in the USA is what I call de professionalization. service and manufacturing industries are transitioning from being staffed by semi-skilled worker to being staffed by untrained, unskilled, and disposable workforces. the goal is to have an average worker to be as valuable and irreplaceable as an average worker ant in an ant hill. And an IQ to match.

Amazon and a handful of other companies made this work by designing every single process and piece of equipment from the ground up with this goal in mind. But adapting existing processes that were NOT designed for complete idiots is a different story. The plant I used to work at had a lot of accidents when new people were put on jobs with all of five minutes of training and left to their devices.

]]> By: Christoph Roser https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/#comment-118629 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:55:31 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=29489#comment-118629 Hi Tomhas. The key point here in my view is Respect for people. I wrote a whole bunch of blog posts on this. Hope you find them helpful .

]]> By: Tomhas Mendonca https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/#comment-118118 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:33:28 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=29489#comment-118118 Great observations and insight on work standards. I thought it was interesting to point out the difference between a detailed instruction that will discourage employees and cause them to possibly have an incident that results in downtime or someone possibly getting hurt. I thought it was interesting how you pointed out the “motivated worker”. How would someone motivate a worker who is not motivated to do the job and learn the standards but is a great worker and skilled at that.

]]> By: Christoph Roser https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/#comment-118628 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:54:10 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=29489#comment-118628 Hi Gerard, good point. Someone needs to be the owner of the standard and manage the improvement process. “Anybody” automatically means “Nobody”!

]]> By: Gerard Majoor https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/#comment-118049 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:33:41 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=29489#comment-118049 Thx for the nice article Christoph,
Should we not add a third element: Ownership of the standard by the (lead) worker?
The workers should at least be consulted, yet ideally their (thought)leader should own the standard of his team of workers. If you own it, you are driving to continuously improve it after all!
KR, Gerard

]]> By: Christoph Roser https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/#comment-118627 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:52:46 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=29489#comment-118627 Many thanks, Ronald. I will do! (although it is sometimes tough when suffering from writers block. ). keep on reading 🙂

]]> By: Ronald Turkett https://www.allaboutlean.com/limits-of-work-standards/#comment-117958 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:55:18 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=29489#comment-117958 Christoph
Continue your educational series. They have a positive effect on how people around the world learn.
My introduction and first real understanding of Standard Work came at Toyota’s Georgetown KY site when President Fujio Cho taught the first class to the management start up team.

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