How it works

Work the case. Ask the Coach as you go.

Ask it from inside the case: for a first draft, for what caused this before, or for an answer from the case files. Everything it returns waits for your review.

  • Problem statement draftedWeld Line 1 stoppage
  • Draft: Weld Line 1 stoppage Accept Edit Discard

Improvement coach

Start a case without a blank form

The Coach pulls the context from the issue that opened the case, history included. Then it drafts a problem statement, a scope and a target condition. You accept, change or ignore every suggestion before the case is saved.

  • Case context pulled from the issue that opened it, with its history
  • A drafted problem statement, scope, and target condition
  • You accept, change, or ignore every suggestion before the case is saved

Past cases

Look up what caused this before

The Coach pulls causes from the fishbone entries on cases your team has already closed. Each countermeasure comes back with what it was meant to fix. Lessons come with who signed off when that case closed.

  • Causes retrieved from the fishbone entries on past cases
  • Countermeasures with what each one was meant to fix
  • Lessons captured when an earlier case was closed, and who signed it
  • Answered from the case file Torque procedure TQ-04 Weld spec WS-12
  • TQ-04, section 3.2

Case files

Ask questions of every document on the case

It reads every document attached to the case together, as one set. Every answer points back to the file and the passage it came from. It works from your case files alone.

  • Every document on the case read as one set
  • Answers point back to the file and the passage they came from
  • Grounded in your case files, never the open internet
  • Oldest open task: Weld Line 1: bevel gauge setup CASE-0418 5d 1h Verifying

Improvement tasks

Track tasks to done

Raise a task from a case, from an issue, or on its own. Every task has an owner, a due date and a state. Comments stay on the task, with who wrote each one.

  • Tasks raised from a case, from an issue, or on their own
  • Owner, due date, and state on every task
  • Comments stay on the task, with who wrote each one
  • Open across Brantford Plant 2 Issues 6 Cases 4 Tasks 9
  • Torque drift traced to CASE-0418

Site overview

See every open issue, case, and task on one screen

Every open issue, case and task for the site sits on one screen, so nothing gets tracked twice. An open issue traces to the case that took it on. Lessons and target conditions stay with the case they came from.

  • Issues, cases, and tasks for the whole site on one screen
  • Open issues traced to the case that took them
  • Lessons and target conditions kept with each case
  • Suggested countermeasureAsked by P. Villeneuve CASE-0418
  • Recheck torque at bolt 3 Write to case Discard

Coach scope

Ask it when you want it. It never acts on its own

It has no schedule and no trigger from an event. It sees only what your permissions let you see. A person reviews anything it suggests and writes it into the case.

  • No schedule and no trigger from an event
  • Nothing reaches a case until a person reviews it and writes it
  • It sees only what your permissions let you see

What an engineer sees opening a new case

    • Drafted from the issue Problem statement Scope Target condition
    • Case CASE-0362 Accept Edit Discard

    Ask for a first draft of the case.

    Opening a case on a stoppage? Ask the Coach, and it drafts a problem statement, a scope and a target condition from the issue's own history. You accept, change or throw out every line.

    How drafting works
    • Causes on similar cases Fixture wear CASE-0298 Shim replaced Wire feed CASE-0311 Liner changed Gas flow CASE-0287 Regulator set

    See what caused this before, from past cases.

    Ask what has caused this before, on this line or one like it, and the Coach pulls the causes recorded on past cases. Each comes with the countermeasure that followed and the lesson captured at close.

    See past-case retrieval

FAQ

Bring the case you're still working.

30 minutes on your open case and the causes the Coach would pull for it.