1. Enables Meeting of Customer Quality Expectations - Enables consistency, an essential ingredient of quality. With a consistent product quality, a customer soon learns that they will get the right product, at right quality, when it is expected.
2. Enables Work to Be Done to The Current Best Practice - When we use Train the task-writer work sheets, they guide people to perform a task, in the current accepted best way to do it.
3. Enables Efficient and Effective Training - Standard Train the Task-Trainer reduces buddy training time by half, often reducing time to mastery by months. It enables 33 times less after-training-errors, and errors that do occur will tend to be self corrected reducing production problems.
4. Enables Employee Purpose Through Increasing Trust - Purpose is also a key intrinsic motivator. Standardised training leads to standardised work, which breeds mastery and autonomy, and with that, builds trust in leadership and the system. With trust, blame shifts from the person to the process. With that shift, employees feel safer and open to the possibility that standard work processes provide. It gives employees a purpose to which they can aspire.
5. Enables Employee Mastery and Employee Engagement - Standardised training allows for an employee to master a process. Mastery is a key intrinsic motivator, fostering significant employee engagement and process buy in.
6. Enables Employee Autonomy Freeing Leadership Time - Autonomy is a key intrinsic motivator. As we master the standardised work process we gain autonomy. Leaders are freed to focus upon a new visibility to issues, so they can lead value-added continuous improvement efforts.
7. Enables the identification of the 8 Wastes - Task documents enables visibility of defects like waiting, excess inventory, over/under production, unnecessary transportation, over/under processing, unnecessary motion, and underutilised human talent.
8. Enables Rapid Process Scalability - Resultant documentation can be used as scalability blueprints. Standardized training leads to innovation such as flexible work cell processes, better equipment use and repeatable processes.
9. Enables Measurable and More Predictable WIP Results - Standardised training produces standardized work that produce similar results. Results in turn, can become predictable baseline metrics. These metrics can be used as monitored production control points to help to smooth work in process (WIP).
10. Enables Standard Problem-Solving - Task-writer work sheets, and Train the Task-Trainer training, enable the PDCA process and are the primary steps to the advanced standard problem-solving process found in job methods training. Job methods training uses the task writer analysis as a bases for the process details, for later inclusion of proposing a process change, implementing the proposal, and re-evaluating the proposal found in this more advanced training.
11. Enables Observance of Safety Measures - Enables the ability to define and knowledgably adhere to safety measures that engage employees in harm reduction.
12. Enables Flexibility and Creativity - With standard task creation and training the current best practice is the standard. Standard work within the Toyota Production System (TPS) will seldom survive a month without encompassing a PDCA improvement. This is only possible when standard work becomes a practice. Standard work allows one to see and make a multitude of improvements in any process, so even more possibilities become visible and actionable.
13. Helps Finance Teams to Cost and Price Accurately - Applied standard work is systemic, more exact, and makes it easier to determine how much a particular process costs and allows for more accurate pricing.
14. Reduces Workplace Stress - Applied standardised training allows people to do good work rather than spending time correcting errors or apologizing for defects.
15. Enables Systemic Forward Fast Improvement - The journey from knowledge collection to knowledgeable continuous improvement is highly systemic. It allows for a process that is well understood and can be applied consistently. Surfacing of opportunities and continuous improvement becomes the way we do things around here.