Template for Excel
FMEA: Excel template
Use this template to rate potential failures for each process step by severity, occurrence and detection and track every action until it is re-rated.
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Templates and case studies for manufacturing
Working templates for quality, lean and planning, plus projects from our customers. You receive each download after a short form.
- 17 templates
- Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Case studies
Quality and problem solving
Template for Word
8D report: Word template
Use this template to work through a customer complaint or an internal deviation from D0 to D8, with short instructions in every discipline.
Template for PowerPoint
Fishbone diagram: PowerPoint template
Use this template to collect possible causes by 6M as a team and test each one until a cause is confirmed.
Template for Word
5 Whys: Word template
Use this template to keep asking why, from the deviation to a cause you can eliminate, and back up every answer.
Template for Word
A3 report: Word template
Use this template to present a problem and its solution on a single A3 sheet, from the background to the effectiveness check.
Template for Excel
Control plan: Excel template
Use this template to link each inspection characteristic to its specification, inspection method, frequency and reaction to a deviation.
Template for Word
Root cause analysis: Word template
Use this template to take a manufacturing incident from the timeline and evidence to a verified cause and an effectiveness check.
Lean and shop floor
Template for Excel
Value stream map: Excel template
Use this template to capture one product family from the first process to the last and record cycle time, inventory and information flow separately.
Checklist for Excel
5S audit: Excel checklist
Use this checklist to rate a workstation against the five S, back every rating with an observation and track the agreed actions.
Checklist for Word
Gemba walk: Word checklist
Use this checklist to observe a process where the work happens and record the gap to the standard before you agree an action with the team.
Template for Excel
Corrective action plan: Excel template
Use this template to keep actions from shop floor meetings, audits and problem solving in one place, each with an owner, a due date and a status.
Planning, people and maintenance
Template for Excel
Shift schedule: Excel template
Use this template to plan a month with one, two or three shifts and see for every day whether each shift has enough people.
Template for Excel
Skills matrix: Excel template
Use this template to see who can do which task on their own and for which tasks too few employees are qualified.
Template for Excel
Capacity planning: Excel template
Use this template to compare capacity and order demand for each work center over twelve calendar weeks and see in which week a work center is overloaded.
Template for Excel
Maintenance schedule: Excel template
Use this template to plan inspection, maintenance and lubrication for each machine and see which task is due or overdue.
Template for Word
Work instruction: Word template
Use this template to describe a task at a workstation step by step, with a photo, a key point and the reason for each step.
Template for Word
SOP: Word template
Use this template to define who carries out a recurring procedure, what they check and who releases the result.
Case studies
Case Study · Automotive
How Meleghy Automotive connects its plants with a single MES platform
−10 % downtime, +7 % output, 4 plants in six months.
Case Study · Metalworking
Schmiedetechnik Plettenberg: real-time data on the line from day one
InforCOM orders from the ERP, 100 % real-time transparency, Day 1 live on the line.
Turn the template into a live board
In a live demo we show how SYMESTIC captures metrics directly at the machine instead of maintaining them by hand in Excel.