ABSTRACT
In standard operations, it is necessary to combine people and things as effectively as possible, taking into account the conditions that are required in productivity improvement. In the Toyota system, this process of combining people and things is called a work combination. There are three components to standard operations. They are: cycle time; work procedure; and standard stock on hand. In most other companies, such standard operations are determined by an engineer or a technician who, although a third party to the work process, is presumably conversant with the techniques of industrial engineering. The term cycle time refers to the time frame of so many minutes and so many seconds needed to produce a unit or a piece of product. This is determined by the amount of production and the operating time. The term work procedure refers to the order in which work is performed, in accordance with the flow of time.
