Your production managers write reports instead of improving processes.
In an industrial business the information is created at the machine, in the shift log and in the ERP. It gets pulled together by hand, by people who are too expensive for that work.
Six places where we almost always find something in a manufacturing plant.
No survey, no study. These are the workflows we ask about in the first conversation, because they are usually there in this kind of business.
The report before the production meeting
Figures from ERP and MES, deviations from the shift log, open items from the mailbox. The same manual work every week.
Delivery delays reach management too late
Purchasing knows on Monday, management on Thursday, the customer on Friday. In between lies the time when something could still have been done.
Quality data sits there unread
Every measurement is recorded. It gets analysed when somebody complains.
Shift handovers lose what matters
What is not in the log is in the shift leader's head. And the shift leader is off today.
The setup plan lives in a spreadsheet
One person maintains it. If that person is ill, nobody plans.
Nobody knows what a workflow costs
Working time, handovers, rework, waiting. Without that figure you can neither decide nor prove that anything improved.
Four workflows that carry fastest in this setting.
We do not build all four at once. We start with one, make it measurably better, and only then comes the next.
Automatic production report
Every morning at six: figures, deviations against plan, open topics. From ERP, MES and the shift log, in your format, with a source for every number.
Supplier early warning
Delivery dates checked continuously against the order book. If it gets tight, the alternative is on the table before management asks.
Shift handover with a written log
The handover is built from what happened during the shift, not from memory. The shift leader corrects instead of typing.
Complaints with their history
When a complaint arrives, the batch, the measurements and similar cases from recent years are already next to it.
How you notice that it works.
- The production meeting starts with decisions instead of read-outs.
- A delivery delay is a topic when it appears, not when it escalates.
- When the shift leader goes on holiday, the floor does not stall.
Start with the workflow where one single person is irreplaceable. That is almost always the setup plan or the shift handover. The pain is already felt there, and the proof shows up fastest.
Four ways in, translated to the shop floor.
You can start at any of the four. Including straight at the retainer, if you already know what you want.
The Toolbox
Prompts for the shift report, deviation analysis and the supplier email. For the production manager who wants to be done tonight.
What is in the ToolboxValue for two hours of your time
We take your real weekly report and rebuild it in two hours so that most of it writes itself.
How the two hours workOne less process
Usually the production report or the shift handover. We measure how long it takes today, and again afterwards.
How the price comes aboutThe AI Builder, the monthly retainer
We keep the workflows running when you reconfigure a line, upgrade the ERP or add a plant.
What the retainer covers