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Free lean manufacturing templates

Printable PDF and Excel templates for the lean methods your team uses every week. Each one comes with how to fill it in and a worked example.

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Lean Studio boards

30 ready-made boards in Lean Studio

The same lean methods as whiteboards inside LeanSuite: stickies, shapes, arrows and live data widgets on one board. Each board has a page with what it is for, what is on it and a sample with data. What Lean Studio is.

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Strategy deployment, retrospectives and skills

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Made to be printed, filled in and reused

  • Print-ready PDFs

    Every template is a clean PDF sized for Letter paper that also prints on A4. Take it to the floor on a clipboard.

  • Excel where it helps

    The A3, PDCA cycle and log, 5S audit checklist, gemba walk checklist, layered process audit checklist, leader standard work (team leader, supervisor, production manager and plant manager), autonomous maintenance checklist, PFMEA, control plan, Pareto chart, red tag log, OEE tracking sheet, time study sheet, quick kaizen, idea log, near miss log, JSA, risk register, LOTO energy source list, forklift inspection log, NCR log, CAPA log, first article inspection report, PM schedule, downtime log, environmental aspects register, process instruction (MPI), training log, onboarding checklist, cross-training plan, absenteeism tracker, ECR log, DFMEA, PPAP checklist, Cpk study, office 5S audit, lubrication schedule, TPM tag log, AM step audit, cycle count, hour-by-hour board, cost savings tracker, CapEx request, cost-benefit analysis, COPQ worksheet, incoming inspection log, supplier audit, supplier scorecard, receiving log, warehouse safety inspection, racking inspection, material shortage log, safety audit, ergonomic risk screening, work order log, six big losses, andon log, changeover log, kanban sizing, control chart, Gage R&R, root cause action tracker, kaizen event tracker, standard work audit, defect check sheet, TWI job breakdown and training timetable, standard work combination table, hoshin X-matrix and bowling chart, value stream map, yamazumi chart, SQCDP month tracker, lead time worksheet, waste walk log, maintenance KPI tracker, huddle log, DMAIC charter, water spider route, cost deployment matrix, equipment criticality analysis, bottleneck analysis, QA matrix, fault tree, is / is not analysis, 5G investigation log, yokoten tracker, coaching kata log, SMART goals tracker, lean readiness assessment, nemawashi log, breakdown log, heijunka box planner, 4M change log, future state VSM worksheet, value stream plan, kaizen project plan, histogram, scatter diagram, gauge calibration log, escalation log, visual management audit, quality alert log, TQM self-assessment, employee recognition points ledger, lean transformation roadmap, obeya KPI wall, paper forms inventory, CI software evaluation scorecard, lean principles walk, engagement survey results, hansei lessons log, safety cross, daily kaizen log, quality circle log, weekly maintenance schedule, operational excellence assessment, scrum sprint backlog and burndown, TPS house, EPEI and batch size calculator, PPT assessment, process capacity sheet, jidoka stop log, team charter KPI tracker, chaku-chaku planner, SOP register, method selector, autonomous maintenance 90-day plan, safety pillar 90-day plan, quality control pillar 90-day plan, professional maintenance 90-day plan, environment pillar 90-day plan, focused improvement 90-day plan, logistics pillar 90-day plan, people development 90-day plan, early equipment management 90-day plan, cost deployment 90-day plan, poka-yoke worksheet, skills matrix, standard work sheet, SMED worksheet and RACI matrix also come as spreadsheets that do the sums for you.

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Free to use

All the templates are free to use. Download them, print them and edit them to fit your area. To download, enter your name and work email once; there is no account to create.

The fishbone diagram comes as a printable 6M sheet on its Lean Studio board page. Need a number rather than a form? The free lean calculators work out OEE, takt time, changeover savings and more, and the lean glossary defines the terms these templates use. Training a team first? The free training decks are editable PowerPoint sessions on 5S, kaizen, autonomous maintenance and the 8 wastes.

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