Stop-code and shift-log review
A desk review of the stop codes and shift notes you already keep, before anyone spends a week on the floor.
Worcestershire · plant studies
Lost hours have reasons. We draw them so a factory manager can argue from the floor, not from a slogan.
Content Crafthub reads shift logs, times selected operations, and returns charts of throughput and downtime that use your stop codes. We work on the hall, not from a brochure of another industry.
A study, not a laminated target
Factory managers already know when a week felt thin. What is missing is a picture that survives the Monday meeting: planned windows versus standing time, first-hour output after a changeover, and the few stop reasons that eat the rest.
We come from Camer's Green to halls that pack, press, mould, or assemble. Escorts stay with us. We do not ask crews to perform a perfect hour for visitors.
The flagship piece of work is a throughput and downtime study across a hall or a small group of lines. If the books are messy, we start with a stop-code review at the desk.
Fees are day-based and quoted. There is no checkout on this site.
Related work in the same family
Single-line bottleneck observation
One or two shifts beside a named line when the constraint is already suspected but not timed.
Changeover and start-up loss review
Focused work on first-hour output after a change of product, pack, or tool — where many halls lose a quiet third of a shift.
From a hall that kept the chart
They stood the Friday changeovers with us rather than interviewing us about them. The first-hour chart matched what the night lead had been saying for months. I still think the closing briefing ran long for a Friday, but the page we kept on the line is the one the day and night crews now argue from.
From the journal
Separating planned maintenance from hours the line simply did not run
A four-hour ‘engineering’ block on a Friday can hide two hours of waiting for a part that was never booked. The chart only helps if the diary and the log agree.
What a Pareto of stop reasons usually hides
The tallest bar is often the most popular code, not the most expensive wait. Supervisors reach for ‘other’ when the radio is busy.