Set-up time appears nowhere
It is real, often substantial, and not shown separately in every costing. Without it, small batch sizes cannot be judged reliably.
Practice / Your industry
Production and manufacturing
A great deal is measurable in manufacturing. What matters is that recording does not disturb the rhythm.
The working day
The terms
come from you.
Contract manufacturing, metal and plastics, furniture and special machinery, food processing. Businesses where material and time become a piece, and where every minute of standstill counts.
JobWorks order
LinePart
AppointmentDelivery date
DocumentBatch record
HourMachine hour
An example mapping. Your business defines its own terminology.
Where effort accumulates
A useful start
has a reason.
These situations help you recognise the work. We use your actual processes to find which apply to your business.
Scrap disappears
What does not come out right gets made again. The time is spent, but it is assigned to no order.
Traceability by word of mouth
Which batch sits in which piece is known as long as somebody remembers.
The machine schedule in one head
When which machine is free is known by the foreman. The plan consists of his memory.
A possible overview
Manufacturing is on plan. One order is getting tight.
1order with its delivery date at riskmaterial missing since yesterday
12 %scrap on one part numberabove your own average
3batches without a complete recordthe gap is named
An illustration with fictional figures. Sources and responsibilities belong in the individual implementation.
06 · A shift to play through
Which deviation must not wait until the end of the shift?
Works order, set-up time, scrap and batch need short signals rather than extra recording. Pick the case from the shop floor.
From the signal to the decision
- What the agent does
- Pick a starting position on the left.
- The fixed rule
- The rule that applies appears once you choose.
- The visible result
- The visible result appears once you choose.
No starting position chosen yet.
The order of work
Which work
helps first.
Business guidance for a first scope, rather than a blanket instruction to rebuild an entire industry.
What can wait
From quote to invoice
Entered once. Not typed three times.
A customer page, not a CRM
Everything about one customer on one page.
Include the failure cases
Recording must not slow the line
Every entry at the machine costs seconds, and those seconds multiply by the thousand. Anything that does not work in one movement gets bypassed, and then the data is worse than before.
Traceability is a duty, not an analysis
Where batches have to be provable, completeness matters more than any measure. The system has to show where it knows nothing.
Your first stage
Start where
the work improves.
For Production and manufacturing, we choose a bounded first outcome with your team. Existing specialist systems can stay where they fulfil necessary requirements. We compare time relief, payments that can end and the cost of the new way of working.
The workshop gives you priorities and a roadmap. You can continue internally or with support from Markus Kirchmair. The choice of model and agent follows the task, with data and rules retained outside an individual chat.
Explore the workshop →Ready for the next change
Keep the work simple.
The first view should show the next relevant decision. Reasoning and sources remain accessible. We leave out unnecessary features and make actual progress visible.
When a rule changes, agents can help investigate the impact, prepare the adjustment and update tests and documentation. A qualified person assesses the result and its adoption.
Try a change →Your first step
Say yes
to less.
Less unnecessary software. More room for your work. Let’s find the useful first step.