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Ten articles to keep daily management going: shift meeting, floor walks, action plans, indicators, choosing software.
Launch a pilot team in three days, without creating a single account
The D1–D3 plan to start daily management on a pilot team: structure, indicators, first walk, first meeting, with no accounts or IT project.
Choosing field management software: 12 questions to ask before the demo
A 12-question grid to compare field management software: adoption, product rules, price per plant or per user, openness, and what’s available today.
Shop floor indicators: set a target without rewriting the past
How to define a shop floor indicator that holds up: unique name, unit, frequency, target by thresholds, and the rule that protects history when the target changes.
Meeting hold rate: the management indicator everyone forgets
Meeting hold rate says in one number whether daily management really exists. Definition, thresholds, traps, and how to measure it without re-entry.
Gemba walk: a plant manager’s 7 questions on the floor
A management Gemba walk in 7 questions, 30 minutes, with no hunt for culprits: what to look at, what to ask, what to note, and what must happen at the next meeting.
SIM: rituals by level, from the team to plant management
Short-interval management in three levels: what each ritual looks at, who runs it, how long it lasts, and how a gap moves up from one level to the next.
Digital visual management or whiteboard: what you lose at every shift change
The whiteboard has one flaw: it gets erased. What disappears at every shift change, and what digital visual management keeps, without changing the method.
One gap, one action, one date: why action plans die
Shop floor action plans die for four predictable reasons. The simple rules that keep them alive: a name, a date, a reason to block, one column per person.
Paperless floor walk: build your 5S checklist in 12 questions
A ready-to-use 12-question 5S checklist for a phone floor walk, with the answer type and the gap each question should create.
15-minute shift meeting: the SQCDP template that holds up
A 15-minute shift meeting template, topic by topic (S, Q, C, D, P), with what to look at, what to decide and what not to do.
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