Free diagnostic tool · Scheduling
Six-Gate Readiness Check
List tomorrow's jobs and tap each gate: pass, fail or unknown. A job is executable only when all six gates pass. Anything else is at risk, however good the schedule looks.
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Two more from the shop floor.
Waiting Audit
Watch one line for two hours and log every wait. The audit sorts them into six kinds of waiting and shows which one dominates, and whose move it was.
Loss Classification Wizard
Answer up to seven yes/no questions about one stop. The wizard names the kind of loss, who owns it and what usually fixes it. Then re-sort a whole day's “downtime”.
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