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Measure Every Process. Document It Automatically.
Standard-work deviations flagged from the footage, each with the cycle it happened in and the evidence attached, so a CI team can see whether the method drifted once or drifts every shift.
The IE Bottleneck
A traditional time study takes two to five days per workstation, and that number sets the ceiling on everything an industrial engineering team can do (IIE).
For a plant running fifty to two hundred workstations, the arithmetic is unforgiving: the studies you complete are a small fraction of the studies you planned, and the rest of the plant runs on cycle times carried forward from whenever anyone last checked. It is not a diligence problem.
Nobody has the days. The consequence shows up somewhere else entirely, in a line balance that assumes a cycle time nobody measured, an SOP written from memory because there was no time to build it from the work, and a planning system fed numbers that were true two years ago.
Why This Matters
An undocumented process is not a paperwork gap, it is a process that cannot be improved, trained or planned against. You cannot balance a line on a cycle time you have not measured. You cannot train a new operator to a standard that only exists in the head of the person who has always done the job. You cannot prove a kaizen worked without a measured before. And when the planning system asks how long the work takes, somebody types in an estimate. Every one of those is downstream of the same constraint: the study takes days, so it does not happen. Change the cost of the study and the rest of it moves.
How It Works
What Process Vision Does
Recover IE Capacity
The days an engineer spent with a stopwatch come back, and they come back as the part of the job only an engineer can do: value stream mapping, process redesign, and running the kaizen. The measurement stops being the bottleneck and becomes the input.
Document the Undocumented
Processes that have run for years on tribal knowledge get a written standard, because writing it no longer costs a week. Coverage moves from the stations somebody had time for to every station you have footage for, which is usually most of them.
Coverage Instead of Spot Checks
Deviations surface with the cycle they occurred in, so adherence becomes a measure of every shift you have footage for rather than an audit-day score, and coaching can point at the moment itself instead of a recollection of it.
Accurate Planning Inputs
Measured cycle times flow from Process Vision into Asireon, so the production plan rests on what the work actually takes rather than an estimate somebody typed in once. When the method changes, the next study updates the number the planner is using.
Expected Outcomes:
Studies that took two to five days per station complete in hours, so the number of stations covered stops being set by engineering capacity.
Standards exist in writing for processes that had none.
Adherence is measurable on any shift you have footage for rather than on audit day.
Planning works from measured cycle times. And the CI team spends its time on the improvement rather than on the measurement that has to happen before it.
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