Domain A4 practices
Maintenance and Reliability
- CMMS ImplementationComputerised Maintenance Management Systems digitise your equipment inventory, work orders, maintenance history, and spare parts — so nothing critical lives only on paper or in someone's head.
- Machine FMEA (MFMEA)A Machine Failure Mode and Effects Analysis lists every way a machine can fail, scores the risk, and assigns corrective actions — so the highest-risk failures get attention first.
- Predictive MaintenancePredictive maintenance uses condition data from sensors to forecast failures before they occur — so you can plan downtime instead of suffering it.
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)Total Productive Maintenance shares basic equipment care between operators and the maintenance team so failures are prevented at source and equipment runs at its full design capability.
Domain B5 practices
Quality
- 8D Problem Solving8D is a structured 8-step team problem-solving method for significant quality escapes — from containment, through root cause, to permanent corrective action and recurrence prevention.
- Design FMEA (DFMEA)A Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis identifies how a product or design can fail during use, scores the risk, and locks in design controls — surfacing failure modes during design rather than after launch.
- Poka-Yoke / Error ProofingPoka-Yoke is an error-proofing discipline that designs the work so mistakes either can't happen, or get caught at the moment they happen — without relying on operator vigilance.
- Process FMEA (PFMEA)A Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis lists every way a manufacturing process step can fail, scores the risk, and locks in verified controls for the highest-risk failure modes.
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)Statistical Process Control monitors critical product characteristics with control charts at the station — so out-of-control conditions are caught before defects accumulate.
Domain C5 practices
Process and Flow
- 5S Workplace Organisation5S is a workplace-organisation discipline (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardise, Sustain) that makes every tool, material, and document immediately findable and the standard visually obvious.
- Knowledge CaptureKnowledge capture interviews and documents the tacit know-how of experienced operators and engineers before they retire or rotate out — turning critical know-how into recoverable assets.
- SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die)Single Minute Exchange of Die is a structured approach to changeover reduction — separating internal steps (machine down) from external steps (machine running) and standardising the routine so equipment is back to running parts in minutes, not hours.
- Standard WorkStandard Work documents the current best-known method for every operation — sequence, cycle time, and quality checks — so every operator performs the job the same way.
- Value Stream MappingValue Stream Mapping documents every step in a product's flow from raw material to customer, separates value-add from waste, and points to where the biggest improvements lie.
Domain D3 practices
Visibility and Data
- OT Data CaptureOT Data Capture reads data from your existing machines without modifying them, feeding a unified namespace that powers real-time dashboards and analysis.
- Shift Reporting and HandoverShift Reporting structures the end-of-shift handover into a digital record of output, downtime, quality events, and priority actions — so problems do not get lost between shifts.
- Throughput MonitoringThroughput Monitoring tracks parts produced against target on an hour-by-hour cadence, with reasons captured for every miss — so deviations are caught and acted on the same shift.
Domain E1 practice
Planning and Scheduling
Domain F1 practice
Workforce and Knowledge
Domain H1 practice
Cybersecurity and OT
Also published
Digital maturity benchmark
Peer averages across five dimensions, maturity-band prevalence and regional comparisons, from a survey of 114 Canadian manufacturers.