A daily management system that runs on what happens at the line
Your shift meeting is only as good as the information in it. With the EZ-GO platform, what operators record during the shift is already there, and every action from the meeting has an owner and a status.
Where daily management gets stuck
Before the meeting, the team leader copies the numbers of the last shift onto a whiteboard. What happened on the night shift reaches the morning shift by word of mouth or in a notebook. The meeting starts late, because the board is not ready.
Actions from the meeting go on a sticky note. The next day, nobody remembers who took them, and the same problem comes back in the next meeting. After a few weeks, the meeting is still there, but it has become a routine without results.
How the EZ-GO platform supports the four elements of daily management
Leader standard work: the routine of the leader
Leader standard work describes what a team leader or manager checks every day or every week, for example the start of the shift, the line check, or a short gemba walk. In the EZ-GO platform, you set up that routine as a recurring checklist that only team leaders see, through their user rights or a separate area for team leaders.
Visual controls: the right information for the meeting
Operators complete their checklists, report problems, and record actions in the EZ-GO app during the shift. That information is the basis for the next meeting, so nobody has to copy numbers onto a board first. The team leader sees for each shift which checklists are completed and which actions are still open.
The same goes for the shift handover. With a shift handover checklist that both the outgoing and the incoming shift sign in the EZ-GO app, the next shift starts with the same information. Problems that need follow-up become actions for the team leader or maintenance. Read more about a smooth shift handover.
For the meeting itself, you show a dashboard in Power BI on a screen at the line. The EZ-GO reporting pack provides the data, and many customers combine it with data from other systems in one report for the daily meeting. Discuss the topics in a fixed order: safety, quality, efficiency, and training. For results across lines and plants, read the Operational excellence page.
Daily accountability: every action has an owner
An action from the meeting goes into the EZ-GO app, is linked to the process it is about, and is assigned to the person who picks it up. The owner follows the status, and notes and messages stay inside the action. In the next meeting, you look at the open actions instead of searching for sticky notes. To escalate an action to the next tier meeting, you add the person you escalate to, or you tag the action, for example with "Tier 2", and filter on that tag in that meeting. More about how actions lead to a better standard on the Continuous improvement page.
Discipline: see whether the routine is followed
A daily management system only works when it keeps running after the first enthusiastic weeks. Completed checklists and audit scores in the EZ-GO app show whether the routines on the line and the routines of the leaders are actually followed.
