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Gemba Buddy
Use cases

How Gemba Buddy works on a real shift

Explaining it takes an hour. Showing it takes five minutes. Below: an Andon call you can raise yourself, and three situations every production manager recognises.

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Robot and operator reviewing the hourly production board
Try it

Raise an Andon and watch the clock start

This is the operator screen at the workcenter. Pick a reason, the way someone in gloves would.

WC-12 · OPERATOR VIEW
Andon log NO ACTIVE CALL
Andon raised at WC-12
Hancho confirmed the call
Maintenance at the workcenter
Resolved, line running
Reaction
Stop time
Lost output

Every step is stamped, so reaction time and stop time are facts on Monday morning, not opinions.

Three situations

What changes on an ordinary Tuesday

Hour missed

WC-12 books 61 pcs against a target of 120

The shift leader sees the gap at 10:02, not the next morning. The reason is already attached to the hour: tooling, 23 minutes, Andon closed at 09:37.

The conversation moves from "what happened?" to "what do we change?"
Kaizen

An operator photographs a jig that keeps slipping

Submitted from a phone in 30 seconds, with a photo. It gets an owner and a status, and the person who reported it can see it move.

Ideas keep coming because the last one was not ignored.
Staffing

Two people are off and the shift starts in an hour

The skills matrix shows who is trained on the workcenters that matter, so the shift is rebuilt from data instead of memory.

Staffing decisions take minutes, not a phone tree.
Desktop and phone

Same data, whichever screen is closer

Operators and shift leaders work from a phone at the workcenter: booking an hour, raising an Andon, sending a Kaizen. Managers and engineers use the desktop for the dashboard, routings and the skills matrix. Nothing is entered twice.

Team reading output, Andon and Kaizen off one 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.

Gemba Buddy robot and operator waving hello