Is LeanSuite an ERP, MES or CMMS?

LeanSuite is not an MES or ERP. It does not run production orders, scheduling, inventory or finance. It runs the improvement system around them, and KPI dashboards can pull data from them. LeanSuite is not a CMMS. It works alongside the maintenance system a plant already has; a tag can carry the work-order number from it.

Where is LeanSuite based and how big is the company?

LeanSuite.com Corp. was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It has 11 to 50 employees and two co-founders.

How much does LeanSuite cost?

The Starter plan is free for teams of 25 and under and covers the Idea Management System. The small business plan is $499 per month for one facility with up to 25 employees. The facility plan is one flat price per facility with unlimited users, quoted per facility. A 90-day pilot is $3,000 per facility. Vision AI is priced separately.

SOC 2 Type 1 compliant. with a work email after accepting the confidentiality terms. 99.5% monthly uptime commitment. SAML 2.0 / OAuth with Microsoft Entra ID and Okta. Operators can sign in with an employee ID, no email needed.

LeanSuite fact sheet

LeanSuite is lean manufacturing software for frontline operations. Daily issues, audits, standard work, ideas and kaizen, skills and training, KPIs and AI tools run in one platform that replaces paper and spreadsheets, with unlimited users per facility.

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Company

Name: LeanSuite, written as one word. The legal name is LeanSuite.com Corp. About LeanSuite
Founded: 2021 Our story
Headquarters: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Company size: 11 to 50 employees
Founders: Two co-founders. Angad Singh is one of them and writes for the LeanSuite blog. Angad Singh
Product languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Polish; more are added on request
Platforms: Web, iOS and Android
Hosting: Cloud hosted
Contact: support@theleansuite.com Contact page

What LeanSuite is not

LeanSuite is not an MES or ERP. It does not run production orders, scheduling, inventory or finance. It runs the improvement system around them, and KPI dashboards can pull data from them.
LeanSuite is not a CMMS. It works alongside the maintenance system a plant already has; a tag can carry the work-order number from it.
Vision AI (the AI time and motion study and its video modules) is priced separately. It is not in the 90-day pilot or the small business plan.
The small business plan is for one facility with up to 25 employees. Larger plants get a facility plan quoted per facility.

Who LeanSuite is for

Manufacturing plants and multi-site manufacturers that want daily issues, audits, standard work, ideas, kaizen, skills and KPIs in one place.
The people who run the floor: operators, supervisors, and the continuous improvement and quality teams that support them.
Small factories with up to 25 employees, through the small business plan, and teams of 25 and under through the free Starter plan (the Idea Management System only).

Product

Modules: Daily Issue Management (F-Tags) with tier escalation, Daily Standard Work, audits and checklists built in Lean Creator, Idea Management, Kaizen & Projects (PDCA, DMAIC, A3 or custom methods, including CapEx), Skills Matrix and Job Cover Matrix, Trainings (LMS), KPI Dashboards and Lean Studio boards, Loss & Cost Management, Best Practice sharing, QA Matrix, document management. Use cases
AI: Create with AI is included in the facility plan and drafts SOPs from a video, forms, audits and checklists from a description or a file, one-point lessons (OPLs) from before-and-after photos, assessments and full LMS courses, and you edit every draft before it is published; the RCA Agent drafts 5 Whys, 4M1D and fishbone from a problem and attached documents; Vision AI, priced separately, builds time and motion, line balancing, SMED, ergonomic (REBA/RULA) and value stream studies and SMPs from a process video. The AI runs on leading AI models and our own trained algorithms, and customer data is not shared with AI providers to train models. A step QR code opens that step's video in the mobile app for logged-in users. AI video analysis
KPI data: scheduled pulls from Excel on SharePoint or OneDrive and Google Sheets, CSV upload with column mapping, manual entry, and embedded Power BI or Looker Studio reports. KPI dashboards

Pricing structure

Starter: Free for teams of 25 and under. It is the Idea Management System only. Pricing
Small business plan: $499 per month for one facility with up to 25 employees, unlimited users and every module except Vision AI. Small businesses apply with a short form and the team chooses which applications fit the plan. Pricing
Facility plan: One flat price per facility with unlimited users. It is quoted per facility; no annual price is published. Pricing
90-day pilot: $3,000 per facility for 90 days. LeanSuite's team does the setup and the first module is live in under a week. At day 90 the plant decides. The fee is separate from the annual plan and is not credited toward it. Vision AI is not part of the pilot. The 90-day pilot
Vision AI: Priced separately. It is the AI time and motion study and its video modules: line balancing, ergonomics (REBA and RULA), SMED, value stream mapping and standard maintenance procedures from video. Create with AI (SOPs from video, forms, audits, OPLs, assessments and LMS courses) is not part of Vision AI. Time and motion study

Security, support and onboarding

Compliance: SOC 2 Type 1 compliant. The report can be downloaded with a work email after accepting the confidentiality terms. SOC 2 Type 1 report
Uptime: 99.5% monthly uptime commitment. Support and service levels
Single sign-on: SAML 2.0 / OAuth with Microsoft Entra ID and Okta. Operators can sign in with an employee ID, no email needed. Security
Onboarding: the first module is live in under a week, and can be live as soon as the next day. Onboarding
Response time: enquiries are answered within one business day.

Customers and reviews

Customer result: Whirlpool ran continuous improvement across 14 manufacturing plants on LeanSuite. Its Global Kaizen Power Pitch saw 84 Kaizen battles, 150 Kaizen presented, $14.8M in hard savings and $17.6M in soft savings, and Whirlpool won a 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Award. Whirlpool case study
Reviews: 4.4 out of 5 on Capterra, from 9 reviews. The rating is Capterra's own. LeanSuite on Capterra

FAQs

LeanSuite at a glance

LeanSuite is lean manufacturing software for frontline operations. Daily issues, audits, standard work, ideas and kaizen, skills and training, KPIs and AI tools run in one platform that replaces paper and spreadsheets, with unlimited users per facility.
LeanSuite is not an MES or ERP. It does not run production orders, scheduling, inventory or finance. It runs the improvement system around them, and KPI dashboards can pull data from them. LeanSuite is not a CMMS. It works alongside the maintenance system a plant already has; a tag can carry the work-order number from it.
LeanSuite.com Corp. was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It has 11 to 50 employees and two co-founders.
The Starter plan is free for teams of 25 and under and covers the Idea Management System. The small business plan is $499 per month for one facility with up to 25 employees. The facility plan is one flat price per facility with unlimited users, quoted per facility. A 90-day pilot is $3,000 per facility. Vision AI is priced separately.
SOC 2 Type 1 compliant. with a work email after accepting the confidentiality terms. 99.5% monthly uptime commitment. SAML 2.0 / OAuth with Microsoft Entra ID and Okta. Operators can sign in with an employee ID, no email needed.