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Gemba Buddy
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Live shift Shift A-2487 · 07:00–15:00 · 14 workcenters

Production is hard. That's why you need a buddy — Gemba Buddy.

Hourly output, Andon calls, Kaizen, skills, standards and machine counts, all in one app that people on the floor actually enjoy using. Your shift leader books an hour in two taps at the workcenter, and the board on the wall is already right.

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Gemba Buddy robot high-fiving a shopfloor operator
WC-12 · Assembly cell Target 120 pcs/h · std 28 s/pc · 3 FTE
Line running 00:00
Operator, phone at the workcenter
Book hour
Pieces produced
pcs
Two taps. No login screen, no training, gloves on.
Board on the wall, same second
Booked
Downtime
Andon
Reaction
Press the buttons. This is the whole loop: book the hour, call for help, watch the board follow.
1 day from decision to first booked hour Upload users, workcenters and routings in the morning. The afternoon shift reports in the app.
0 IT tickets to collect machine data NB-IoT counters read the machine over the cellular network. No cabling, no gateway, no company Wi-Fi.
6 modules, one app, one price Hourly board, Andon, Kaizen, skills matrix, engineer panel, dashboard. Not six tools that never talk.

Six modules.
One shopfloor routine.

Every module is here because a shift leader asked for it over coffee. Nothing is here to fill a feature comparison table.

01 Hourly board Output and labour booked hour by hour, target against actual, the gap with a reason attached. 02 Andon One tap calls quality, logistics, maintenance or safety. Every step timestamped until the line runs again. 03 Kaizen Ideas sent from a phone with a photo, an owner and a status the author can follow to the end. 04 Skills matrix Who is trained on which workcenter, and to what level. Gaps visible before you plan the shift. 05 Engineer panel Routings, cycle times and standards. Change one and the board recalculates the target itself. 06 Dashboard + IoT Shift, day and week in one view, with piece counts read straight off the machine over NB-IoT.
Flexibility

It bends to your plant, not the other way round

Gemba Buddy is configured, not developed. Workcenters, routings, reason codes, roles, units and the words your people already use are set to your process, and it reads from the systems you run today. That is why a new industry takes days of setup instead of a quarter of a project.

How we adapt it
01
Your process, your vocabulary Reason codes, shift patterns, units, roles and the names on the board follow how this plant talks. Nobody has to learn someone else's naming to book an hour.
02
A new industry in days It grew up in automotive, where the standards are strictest. Wherever production repeats, the loop is the same: an hour, a target, an actual, a reason. Fitting it to your product is setup work, not development.
03
It talks to the systems you have Orders, articles, routings and standards can come in from your ERP or MES, and booked output goes back the same way. If a system can share data, we connect to it. And you can start before that link exists.
Built on the floor

A buddy for the shift, not a system to feed

In lean, gemba is the place where value is actually made. A buddy is someone who helps instead of getting in the way. Gemba Buddy was designed by practitioners on the hall floor, not in a conference room, and it shows in every screen: fewer fields, bigger buttons, no manual.

Set up by you, in a day, without consultants Runs on the phones your people already carry Scales from one line to several plants
Shopfloor team discussing hourly output, Andon and Kaizen at a shared board
Free 30-day trial

Try it on one line for a month. Then decide.

Setup takes a day: upload your users, workcenters and routings, and the afternoon shift is already reporting in the app. No IT project, no integration work, no card. If it does not help your line, walk away, we will still swap notes about production.

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Gemba Buddy robot and operator waving hello