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by Kyle Shropshire (Author)
Improve your process with step-by-step work instructions and operating procedures. Examples are included.
A work instruction, or Standard Operating Procedure ( SOP ), is needed to reduce workplace errors and ensure process consistency. Product quality is easily attained when all workers are able to easily repeat a process the same way every time. Work instructions that promote process consistency save time and money during routine operations as well as during new employee training sessions.
- Understand why most work instructions fail.
- Build a framework that allows the quick creation of familiar feeling instructions.
- Create a style guide to keep documents consistent.
- Write concise steps that convey all necessary information.
- Place and format images appropriately for technical documentation.
- Apply helpful tips that I have gathered from writing my own work instructions in a manufacturing environment. These topics will help you build a solid foundation and get you started on the way to writing work instructions that people actually want to read.
Author Biography
Kyle Shropshire is a mechanical engineer, programmer, and automation enthusiast. Somehow, he has found time to begin sharing his experiences from his engineering career, as well as his hobbies, in between working and running a CNC mill on his coffee table.
