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“If you don't get measured, you don't know how you're doing.”

Most shops run customer service on tribal knowledge — no KPIs, no RACI, no way to know if the team's keeping up.

One shop that fixed it recovered $232,700/year. Part 3 of 4: https://t.co/EvrTcLj2ao

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A 14-day quote turnaround was quietly costing an aerospace machine shop business — competitors were pricing the job before they even responded.

We cut it to same-day and found ~$200K/year in the process.

Part 2 of 4 on machine shop bottlenecks: https://t.co/ARxj1t9EuH

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Most aerospace machine shops don't have a quality problem — they have an inspection problem.

Layers of re-verifying the last person's work isn't rigor. It's a tax.

One shop that fixed it freed up ~$1M/year. Part 1 of 4: https://t.co/iAnv6TGbRf

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Your best Lean practitioner can't be on every line at every plant at once.

KAI can. Plain-language questions, answers from 35 years of TBM Lean practice — with the source cited.

Demos at #IMTS2026 — Booth

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Leader standard work still lives on paper. So nobody actually knows what got done. LeaderPro timestamps every task, captures photo proof, and tracks completion by leader. Then KAI scripts the coaching conversation.

Demos at #IMTS2026 — Booth #432279.

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A line logged zero downtime for 30 days. It was losing 150–200 units a day. PowerHour captures plan vs. actual, defects, staffing and reason codes every interval. KAI Lean AI Agent, finds what nobody logged.

Demos at #IMTS2026 — Booth #432279.

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Your S&OP process can be disciplined, well-governed and still produce bad decisions. The problem may be the demand signal feeding it. Brian Cromer breaks down 5 ways manufacturers get the signal wrong — and what it takes to fix it. Read the article: https://t.co/FFjCMTDDWh

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What are we demoing at IMTS? Digital Management System, powered by iObeya — Interconnected obeya rooms mirroring every tier of your organization. PowerHour — hour-by-hour production tracking. LeaderPro — leader standard work, digitized. KAI — our Lean AI agent.

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Failure happened at 10:16 a.m. You found it at 4 p.m. That gap is where margin dies. See the fix live at #IMTS2026 — TBM's Digital Management System, PowerHour, LeaderPro & KAI. Booth #432279 · West Bldg, Level 3 Sept 14–19 · McCormick Place
https://t.co/OaBCbQ6Yw6

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Manufacturing leaders: digitizing an undisciplined daily cadence doesn't fix it. It just makes noise travel faster.

Process first, then technology. Here's what actually changes when SQDC boards go digital: https://t.co/sKe64aVB74

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If your team can't answer all three today — that's the finding.

We start every client conversation with a free 30-min operations review. If we find opportunity together, we'll follow with a free one-day site visit.
https://t.co/5CLlQDpfXt

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Most manufacturers think their margin problem is a pricing problem.

It usually isn't.

We found $1.5M in cost reduction at an industrial manufacturer. None of it came from pricing, contracts, or headcount.

It came from three questions nobody had asked.

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Three questions. $1.5M in cost reduction.

No price increases. No renegotiated contracts. No layoffs.

The margin was already there. It just wasn't on anyone's report.

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Your 2027 budget is being built right now — on assumptions nobody's checked against what your plants can actually deliver. S&OP has the data to stress-test it before it's locked, here's how:
https://t.co/VMGj9IKnt6

#SupplyChain #SOP

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Most manufacturers are leaving 10–15% margin on the floor. Not through bad pricing or bad products. Through operational waste nobody's measured. We found $1.5M for one #manufacturer. It was always there, they just couldn't see it. We can find it. https://t.co/5CLlQDpfXt

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A $3.6B packaging #manufacturer thought they had an #inventory problem. They didn't — their #supplychain was built for old demand patterns. Fix: redesigned replenishment + supplier relationships. Result: $1M in inventory cost cut. Free Margin Review https://t.co/5CLlQDpfXt

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Attn. #Manufacturing leaders --Don't have enough bandwidth to go after all your margin improvement opportunities in your plant--watch here