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The unwritten SOP

You filmed the line. The SOP still isn't written.

The walk-around is done and the clip is sitting on someone's phone, while the SOP is still a blank page nobody has time to fill. Create an SOP from video instead: upload the clip and LeanSuite drafts the steps out of the footage.

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  • Upload a video and it will build an SOP or a job aid from the video itself
  • It also gives you a QR code which if you scan it would play you that step
  • Assign it to an operator role and they can simply sign off on it

Two ways to get it written

Create an SOP from video, not from memory

Typed up after the fact

Someone has to watch the clip back and retype every step, then go hunting for photos and tool lists. The document keeps losing to whatever the floor needs today.

Drafted from the footage

It highlights the PPE, the tool requirement and it breaks it down into step by step. And then you can fine tweak it, depending on what you feel is right.

Sound familiar?

You filmed the job, then wrote the SOP anyway

You walked the line with your phone out and got the whole job on video. The clip is still sitting there, because writing it up means a blank page, numbering every step and hunting for photos. So the job keeps running the way whoever trained last remembers it.

Filmed, never written

  • The clip never becomes a document

    The footage stays on a phone or a shared drive because writing it up takes an afternoon nobody has.

  • Two operators, two methods

    Without a written standard, the job runs the way whoever trained each person remembers doing it.

  • Sign off means a signature

    People sign the SOP without anything checking whether they actually read it or understood it.

Video in, SOP out

  • One upload, a full draft

    You can attach a video of that process and it can actually break it down into steps and build that SOP for you with just the video, which you can send out to get people's signature there.

  • A frame on every step

    Once you print this, you would see a QR code where if somebody on the shop floor scans that QR code, rather than showing it in a screenshot format, it would play that clip of just that step of the video right on the phone or the tablet.

  • Questions built into sign off

    What it also does is that it puts certain questions in between. So it's making sure that the person actually understood the SOP.

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Before this

What plants try before video to SOP

1

Write it up in Word

The first few get written properly, then the line needs someone and the rest stay as bullet points in a draft. Six months on, the folder holds two finished SOPs and a lot of half pages.

2

Photograph every step

The photos get taken, but somebody still has to caption them, order them and write the safety notes around them. The album ends up in a shared drive nobody opens.

3

Reuse another line's SOP

It is quicker, but the fixtures, tools and sequence are not the same, so operators learn to ignore the parts that do not match. Once they ignore part of it, they ignore all of it.

How it works

Film it once. The SOP writes itself.

The walk-around is done and the clip is sitting on someone's phone, while the SOP is still a blank page nobody has time to fill. Create an SOP from video instead: upload the clip and LeanSuite drafts the steps out of the footage.

  1. Film the job where it happens
  2. Upload it and read the draft
  3. Set the rule for sign off
  4. Put it on the daily list

Step 1

Film the job where it happens

You could actually record a video while you're talking about the process. So you can use that feature to build all your SOPs.

Step 1: Film the job where it happens

Step 2

Upload it and read the draft

You upload the video and pick video SOP, and it will pick up all those essential things: what's the purpose of this work instruction, what's the scope, any PPE requirements, any materials or tools or equipment that are needed. And then it just puts that in a step by step format for you.

Step 2: Upload it and read the draft

Step 3

Set the rule for sign off

If you require someone to sign off on it, you can add a field for signature. And if you assign this SOP to somebody to sign off on, it will make sure to ask certain questions that are relevant to certain steps.

Step 3: Set the rule for sign off

Step 4

Put it on the daily list

You can assign all those templates to different individuals or different roles in the factory with a certain frequency. That becomes your daily standard work. Things like audits and checklists could have a repeatable pattern, but for something like an SOP, it can only have one occurrence.

Step 4: Put it on the daily list
80 to 85%
Angad's conservative read on AI output accuracy today
One to two hours
Angad: what is left for the person after AI

Who feels it

What changes for each of them

Three people, the same clip.

Operator

Today

Learns the job from whoever is free that shift.

With LeanSuite

Knows exactly what to do today. Scans the QR code, the clip plays.

Supervisor

Today

The clip is on the phone. The SOP is still on the list.

With LeanSuite

Attach the video, fine-tune the draft, save.

CI lead

Today

Gemba walk footage nobody turns into a document.

With LeanSuite

Publish it, assign it to a role, set the frequency.

Angad Singh, Co-Founder of LeanSuite

From our co-founder

“You can upload a video, it will analyze that video for you, it highlights the PPE, the tool requirement, and it breaks it down into step by step.”
Angad Singh, Co-Founder, LeanSuite

Where to next

From the clip to a written job

The video already has the job in it. These pages cover turning it into a document, putting that document in front of operators, and pulling what's in the footage without watching it again.

Write the SOP with AI

Turns what you know about the process into a structured, step-by-step SOP instead of a blank page. Keeps the write-up consistent so the job reads the same no matter who documents it.

See how it works →

Put steps on the floor

Once the job is written up, this is where it lives as step-by-step digital instructions operators follow at the station. Stops the job from running on whatever the last trainer remembers.

See how it works →

Pull details from footage

Upload the clip and get a summary, issues it spots, and recommendations back without rewatching it. Saves the manual review before you sit down to document the job.

See how it works →

  1. You can actually upload a video and it will analyze that video for you. It picks up on its own very well. From there you can fine tune it and add other steps in there.

  2. It is strongest on simple, repetitive processes. Accuracy drops on complex, multi step assembly, and that has come back from customers directly. Better camera angles and feeding corrected studies back in improve it over time.

  3. There's the web application, or you can also use Android or iOS devices like tablets or phones as well. Up to two hours is fine, because what we do in the backend is we actually chunk it down into smaller videos so that it doesn't lose the context of the video.

  4. Once you save and publish this, you can assign it to whoever needs to see this. You can create as many roles and add people to them, but you can individually assign this as well. Then you submit it and assign it to that individual, and they can simply just sign off on it. Once someone clicks on daily standard work, they will see all the activities that they need to do in that day. If there's any flagged items, it will send out the notification and even initiate the tag.

Bring a clip. Leave with a drafted SOP.

Send us a video of one of your own jobs and we will run it through LeanSuite on the call so you can see the draft it produces and what you would still correct.