Field note
Why the weighbridge slip is the first number we trust
Every tonne that enters the plant is weighed once. We build the stores ledger from that slip, not from the purchase order.
Your shift register already knows why Line 2 stopped
Supervisors record every stoppage, its start, its end and usually its cause. It simply stays in the register.
Ask a plant head why output fell short last week and the answer is often a guess. Ask the line supervisor and they will open the shift register and show you: screen-changer fault, 02:10 to 05:22, Line 2.
The information was never missing. It sat on paper, on the line, while the meeting that needed it happened in the office.
Totalled by cause, not by shift
A register is organised by shift because that is how it is kept. A decision needs it organised by cause: how many hours did screen changes cost this month, on which line, and is it getting worse.
When stoppages are posted as they happen, the morning view can say it plainly: output fell short because Line 2 stopped for 3.2 hours.
Start with the register you have
We do not ask supervisors to learn a new form. We copy the columns they already use, with the causes they already write, and make the entry quicker than the paper.
The first month usually shows two or three causes behind most of the lost hours. That list is the agenda for the first quarterly review.
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Bring us one operating problem
Thirty minutes on the problem that costs you most. No deck, no demo.