From the course: The Benefits of Standardization and Standard Work

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Three elements

Three elements

(upbeat music) - [Presenter] Hey there, welcome back. All right, in this module we're going to continue our journey as we discuss how to design standard work using the three elements we introduced in the standard work introduction module. Well, specifically by the end of this module, you'll know what the three elements of standard work are, as well as how to use them to design standard work. Okay, so let's get started by first defining the three elements of standard work. Well, the first element of standard work is takt time. Now as we learned in the Gemba Academy transforming your value streams course, takt time is the rate at which work must be performed in order to satisfy customer demand. Calculating takt time is done by dividing the net available time an organization has to work in a given period by the customer demand during this same period. So, for example, if an organization has 480 minutes to work in a day,…

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