Industries
Lean manufacturing software by industry
LeanSuite is lean manufacturing software for frontline operations. The routines are the same in every plant (daily issues, audits, standard work, skills, kaizen and tiered meetings), but each industry puts different pressure on them. These pages show the problems four industries run into and the LeanSuite modules that handle each one.
Food and beverage
Changeover and sanitation checklists, audit evidence, training for seasonal operators and losses on filling and packaging lines.
- Allergen and product changeovers
- Sanitation and pre-op checks
- Food safety audit evidence
- Seasonal staff and turnover
- Short stops on filling and packaging lines
- Quality holds and repeat defects
Automotive
Layered process audits, 8D corrective actions, standard work, certified operators, SQDC tier meetings and supplier quality.
- Layered process audits
- 8D and corrective actions
- Standard work on every shift
- Certified operators on critical stations
- SQDC tier meetings
- Supplier quality
Appliances and consumer durables
Sharing best practices between plants, kaizen at scale with savings Finance signs off, line balancing, defects and frontline ideas.
- Sharing what works between plants
- Running kaizen at scale
- Line balancing on assembly lines
- Defects, rework and cost of poor quality
- Ideas from a large workforce
Industrial and HVAC equipment
High-mix assembly, work instructions for complex builds, skills held by a few experts, supplier quality, rework and safety.
- High-mix, low-volume production
- Work instructions for complex assembly
- Skills held by a few experienced people
- Quality of bought-in parts
- Rework after final test
- Near misses and lockout
Lean playbooks by industry
The method side of these pages: the problems each industry meets on the floor, the lean methods that address them, a 90-day starting plan, the KPIs to track and free templates.
Lean playbook for food and beverage plants
7 floor problems, a 90-day plan and 7 KPIs for food and beverage plants.
Read the playbookLean playbook for automotive plants
8 floor problems, a 90-day plan and 7 KPIs for automotive plants.
Read the playbookLean playbook for industrial and HVAC equipment makers
7 floor problems, a 90-day plan and 6 KPIs for industrial and HVAC equipment plants.
Read the playbook
Industry not listed?
Start from the problem instead. The use cases and problems we solve cover each routine on its own, and the buyer's guide explains what lean manufacturing software should cover in any plant.
FAQs
Industry fit, answered
Manufacturing plants. There are pages for food and beverage, automotive, appliances and consumer durables, and industrial and HVAC equipment, and the same modules run in any plant with daily issues, audits, standard work, skills and Kaizen.
If you run a manufacturing plant, yes. The routines are the same in every plant; what changes is the pressure on them. Start from your problem in the use cases at theleansuite.com/use-cases instead.
No. LeanSuite isn't a certification. It runs the routines your standard asks for, such as layered process audits, GMP and HACCP checks, training records and corrective actions, and keeps a time-stamped record of each check and action that you can export for the auditor.
One flat price per facility with unlimited users, so every operator on every shift can use it without adding seats. Operators sign in with an employee ID, so they don't need a company email.
Yes. Several plants share one workspace and each keeps its own data. Templates, courses and boards can be shared across plants, and company-level roll-ups show results across sites.
See LeanSuite on your own floor's problems
Bring the routine you want to fix first. We will show you how LeanSuite handles it and what a 90-day pilot would cover.