Self-assessment / Placeholder
A plant already produces its own signals
Every shift leaves a record of whether the work ran to standard. The question is whether the management system reads it.
Short analyses
Every shift
Short pieces for operations leaders on standards, routines, checks and corrections, read shift by shift.
Standard work / Placeholder
Standards drift quietly
Standard work rarely breaks in one step. It thins out, one skipped check at a time, shift after shift.
Leadership / Placeholder
Questions a COO can ask any week
The questions an operations leader can ask any plant, any week, to learn whether its management system is still running.