Learning Center
The Plant Visibility Checklist
11 places manufacturing plants quietly lose hours, yield, and sleep. Takes about five minutes. Answer Yes only when you can say it quickly and confidently.
- 1.
Shift Handoffs Does each shift start with a detailed performance review of what happened the prior shift?
- 2.
Downtime Causes Can you name your top three causes of lost time last month, with hours attached?
- 3.
Key Person Risk If your best supervisor were out for a week, would you still know what is happening on the floor?
- 4.
Trusted Metrics Would you confidently defend every metric you report upward (yield, labor efficiency, run rates) if someone pushed?
- 5.
Changeovers Do you know your actual average Level 1 and Level 2 changeover times by line, compared to your standard?
- 6.
QA Release Waits Can you see how long finished product waits on QA or lab release, and what it costs the schedule?
- 7.
Lot Traceability Do workers scan each lot before issuing it to a batch?
- 8.
Batch Records and Deviations Are your batch records, cleaning logs, and deviations digital and searchable?
- 9.
One Source of Truth Does your team track production in one official system, with all data in one place?
- 10.
Maintenance History Can you report mean time to repair (MTTR) and mean time between failures (MTBF) for your equipment?
- 11.
AI Insights Does AI review your production data and tell your team where to focus each day?
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