SMED Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical SMED Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any SMED related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated SMED specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the SMED Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SMED improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. How can manufacturers get employees on board with lean manufacturing, when sometimes principles can result in a need for fewer personnel?
   
   

2. How can manufacturers turn what sounds like alphabet soup into lean practices that really create positive change within organizations?
   
   

3. Are there procedures to coordinate monitoring, enforcement, and implementation activities between the jurisdictions involved?
   
   

4. What method would be used in a lean manufacturing environment to keep waste from returning over time as a part of a process?
   
   

5. How does just in time manufacturing help to reduce areas of waste identified by lean manufacturing philosophies?
   
   

6. What triggered the introduction of changes, and what impact did it have on the approach to product development?
   
   

7. How do the data on exposure and observed or predicted effects relate to the rapidity of response required?
   
   

8. Which tools in Lean manufacturing are applicable to Purchasing activities of each studied organization?
   
   

9. Has your organization tried to link the changeover data with output data of the production and quality?
   
   

10. Will there be a minimum or maximum reimbursement rate set for providers throughout your organization?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the SMED book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your SMED self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the SMED Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which SMED areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough SMED Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage SMED projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step SMED Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 SMED project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Are behaviour modification applied to change procurement of goods and services if procurement is not functioning properly?
   
   

2. Requirements Management Plan: Are actual resource expenditures versus planned still acceptable?
   
   

3. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its security arrangements are appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Are the right skills, experiences and competencies present in the acquisition workgroup and are the necessary outside specialists involved in part of the process?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Is your organization aware and informed about international procurement standards and good practice?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Management Plan: Have SMED project management standards and procedures been identified / established and documented?
   
   

7. Activity Cost Estimates: Scope statement only direct or indirect costs as well?
   
   

8. Scope Management Plan: Does the business case include how the SMED project aligns with your organizations strategic goals & objectives?
   
   

9. Procurement Management Plan: How and when do you enter into SMED project Procurement Management?
   
   

10. Communications Management Plan: Will messages be directly related to the release strategy or phases of the SMED project?


 
Step-by-step and complete SMED Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 SMED project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 SMED project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 SMED project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 SMED project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 SMED project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 SMED project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any SMED project with this in-depth SMED Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose SMED projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in SMED and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make SMED investments work better.

This SMED All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.