Quality trend walk
A structured walk of scrap tickets, rework loops, and first-pass checks to see which defects actually move with the line and which sit in the hold cage.
Visit notesThe line already knows. The board usually does not.
Deploy Flowcore spends plant days on one production line, timing units, naming stops, and separating scrap tickets from hold-cage aging. The work is a visit, not a remote scorecard.
What we do on the floor
A study is a person with a watch, standing where the pieces actually pause
Throughput is units that clear the count point the plant already uses for the shift. Downtime is clock time attached to a named reason the operator can point at. Quality trends are tickets, first-pass fails, and the hold cage treated as three piles, not one monthly percentage.
We write those stories after walking the line with the supervisor host. Charts in the pack are run charts and ranked stop lists from that week. They are not a control-room display and they are not a substitute for the setter’s sequence.
Related visits
Other work that sits next to a line study
Shift-log reconstruction
Rebuilding a usable week of counts and stops from mixed clipboards, whiteboard photos, and operator notes so the next study starts from a shared record.
Visit notes
Recurring floor observation
Scheduled return days after a study to check whether the agreed stop codes still match the floor and whether unit-per-hour movement held through a busy week.
Visit notesFrom a superintendent
They stood at station four through a changeover we had been calling forty minutes for a year. The last good piece to the first packed piece was seventy-two. That number annoyed me, and it was the first number I trusted.