Re: FW: best practices for factory worker/plant personnel documentation

[Anthony Davey <ant -at- ant-davey -dot- com>]

Diane,

I have only one site experience of this, where Demand Flow Technology 
was introduced on a manufacturing and assembly line.  The production 
line had Kanbans, with each set of tasks taking about 3.5 minutes.  The 
set of tasks was documented using A4/letter size pages with colour coded 
diagrams illustrating the complete set of tasks to be done at that 
Kanban.  I didn't actually do the work, but I think the tasks were also 
described in words.  The colour codes were, I think, to indicate whether 
an operation involved, say, push fit, a screwdriver or spanner operation.

These sets of documents were mounted on stands, or on the side of a tool 
chest or component racking as close as reasonably possible to the point 
where the work was to be done.  The operating procedures are usually 
learned quite quickly as they are repeated many times each day.

Regards,
Ant

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