Operational Excellence: Create a culture of excellence

Operational excellence is a way of running a plant where processes are standard and repeatable, equipment stays running and teams keep finding and fixing problems. LeanSuite supports it with five tools: the Tag Management System, the Continuous Improvement System, the Manufacturing Document Builder, KPI Builder & Dashboards and the Suggestion Platform.

The most widely used set is the ten guiding principles of the Shingo Model: respect every individual, lead with humility, seek perfection, embrace scientific thinking, focus on process, assure quality at the source, improve flow and pull, think systemically, create constancy of purpose, and create value for the customer. In practice they come down to standard processes, problems fixed at the source, and people at every level improving the work.

There is no single score, so plants track a few operating measures. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) shows how much planned production time is truly productive, and first pass yield (FPY) shows how many units pass quality control on the first attempt. LeanSuite's KPI Builder & Dashboards track these and your own efficiency metrics on one dashboard.

Tag each stop as it happens, log breakdowns as emergency work orders with downtime and MTTR, and turn recurring problems into Kaizen projects that fix the root cause.

Write SOPs and schedule checks through Daily Standard Work, so each shift follows the same standard. The Manufacturing Document Builder shares your best processes across teams.

Lean daily management is the routine of reviewing performance every shift, raising problems where they happen and escalating what a team can't fix through tiered meetings. In LeanSuite, tags, Daily Standard Work and Lean Studio boards run that routine, and each problem keeps an owner and a due date until it is closed.

The daily routines of a plant in one place: problems raised and escalated during the shift, standard work and audits, improvement projects with measured savings, skills and training, and KPIs every tier can see. LeanSuite covers all of these in one platform, priced per facility with unlimited users.