LeanSuite ROI: Put a number on your manufacturing waste

It applies lean manufacturing benchmarks to your answers: team size, wages, supervisor time, quality checks, manual data logging and how digitized you are. Treat it as a directional estimate; an on-site assessment can refine the numbers.

Operational waste includes the 8 wastes of lean: defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory excess, motion waste, and extra processing. The calculator covers the areas digital tools affect most: data capture, planning and reporting, and paper documents.

No. The calculator applies industry benchmarks to your answers, so the figures are averages, not LeanSuite results. For a published customer result, see the Whirlpool case study at theleansuite.com/case-studies/whirlpool.

It moves the routines that run on paper and spreadsheets onto phones and tablets: issue tags, audits and checklists, ideas and Kaizen projects, skills and KPIs. That cuts the re-typing and report building, and every problem gets an owner and a due date.

Add up the hours it removes from paper forms, data entry and report building, plus the losses it helps you cut, such as downtime and scrap, and compare that with the annual cost. Count only savings you can trace to a change; Kaizen savings recorded as hard savings are the easiest to defend.

Nothing is saved while you use the calculator. If you unlock the full report, your name, work email and answers are saved to our CRM so we can follow up, and handled per our privacy policy.

Yes. The free report includes a deeper breakdown. For a facility assessment with specific recommendations, schedule a demo and our lean manufacturing team will look at your operation in detail.