The tool114 Canadian manufacturers benchmarkedDiagnosis free · documents from $19 + tax5 minutes · no account required
How it works
Digital readiness and operational excellence benchmarking.
The five stages of a Compass diagnosis, in full.
- 01 — Describe: Your problem, in plain language. Say it the way you would on the floor. No taxonomy to learn, no form to fill. One sentence in plain language is the whole entry. (Free · no account)
- 02 — Identify: The practice that fixes it. The practice that fixes it, not a reading list. Compass routes the sentence to one of twenty documented practices — or to the digital readiness track — and breaks it into the tasks that practice is actually made of. (20 practices · 1 match)
- 03 — Assess: One question per task, honestly. One behavioural question per task. Not “how mature are you” — how do you handle this today. Five levels, in the words of the shift that does the work. (3–5 minutes total)
- 04 — Compare: Where you stand versus world-class. Your current state against world-class. Every task lands on the ladder with the size of its gap, benchmarked against 114 Canadian manufacturers. One of them is named as the next step. (Still free · results on screen)
- 05 — Act: Deliverables you can use Monday. Deliverables you can use Monday. Root-cause analysis and the document templates for the gap you just measured — filled with your answers, not a blank pack. (From $19 + tax)
Why ForgeShift
What ForgeShift Compass is
Compass is a digital and operations readiness and problem-to-practice diagnostic from ForgeShift Advisory.
- Describe any challenge — equipment breaking down, quality escaping to customers, changeovers too slow, processes inconsistent, or not knowing where to start with AI and digital transformation.
- Compass identifies the relevant lean practice automatically for operational problems, or routes to the digital and AI readiness assessment for transformation challenges.
- It then asks one behavioural question per task and generates a personalised gap analysis benchmarked against Canadian manufacturers surveyed in the 2026 Advanced Manufacturing Outlook report (Plant, Canadian Manufacturing Online, and EMC).
After the diagnosis
Diagnosis done. Ready to fix it?
Compass tells you where you stand. The Journey closes the gap to world class. Explore to see what might fit your need.
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