Introduction to the Work Standardization Process

When you hear of work standardization, the first thing that probably comes to your mind are instructions hanging somewhere next to workstands. Unfortunately, this is a commonly oversimplified approach where the work standardization process comes down only to preparing documents. Just think for a moment if such instruction hanging over a workstand changes anything in the production process. Well, of course not! On the basis of my practice in manufacturing, I can say that these instructions play only a decorative and formal role in companies where work standardization has been reduced to the preparation of documents. They simply hang next to workstands, untouched and unnoticed by anybody-well, apart from maybe an external auditor.