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Hour by Hour poster
Target, actual, why - every hour.
The shift's target splits itself across the hours, lighter where the lunch is. Key in what each hour made. A miss with a reason is a problem you can fix; a miss without one is just a bad number.
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The four steps on the poster
- Set the shiftStart, hours, breaks, target
- Key each hourWhat actually got made
- Write the whyOnly when the hour missed
- End of shiftOne page, composed for you
Also on the poster
- The target spreads itself800 across eight hours with a half-hour lunch - the board does the arithmetic.
- Enter, do not rememberKey the hour in the hour. A reason written at 10:00 is true; one written at 22:00 is a guess.
- The why is the pointWrapper down. Short-handed. Waiting on replen. Now it can be fixed.
- The report writes itselfEnd of shift - hours, misses, downtime and actions on one page. Nothing retyped.
The line to remember
A miss with a reason is a problem you can go and fix.
In the app
The poster comes from Lean Day Toolkit, where it opens from Floor → Hour by hour, next to the tool it describes. Get the app: App Store · Google Play · Amazon Appstore for Fire tablets.