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Plant Excellence Audit & Rollout Kit — assess the plant, then run the fix in 90 days

A complete plant assessment and rollout system for plant managers, operations managers, and Lean leaders. Score your plant against 80 audit criteria, watch the dashboard build your score, maturity verdict, and biggest gaps from those scores, then run the fix with a 12-week 5S & TPM rollout plan, printable audit forms, and a supervisor training package — all in one download, at a one-time price.

One-time price — no subscription Excel · PowerPoint · PDF Built by a practitioner — Brian Sheard, 25 years in manufacturing
80audit criteria in 10 categories
49rollout actions over 12 weeks
20training slides with speaker notes
7files in one download

What's inside

Seven working files that take you from "where does this plant actually stand?" to a running 90-day improvement system — assessment first, then the rollout, the daily forms, and the supervisor training to hold the gains.

Workbook · Excel

Plant Assessment Workbook

The heart of the kit: 80 audit criteria across 10 categories, every one written as something you can walk out and verify on the floor — not an opinion survey.

  • Score each criterion 1–5, with the evidence standard spelled out for every level
  • Dashboard builds itself from your scores: category scores, overall plant score, bar and radar charts
  • Formula-driven maturity verdict, from "Foundation needed" to "World-class trajectory"
  • Top Gaps sheet names your five weakest categories and gives you the action table to work them
Workbook · Excel

KPI Dashboard Pack

A 12-month tracker for the six numbers that tell you whether the plant is actually improving — set targets once, enter actuals monthly, and the variance math is done for you.

  • OEE %, scrap %, on-time delivery %, unplanned downtime hours, safety incidents, inventory turns
  • Target vs. actual vs. variance for every month, with ahead/behind colour coding
  • OEE calculator with a fully worked example that lands at 80.0% — check your own line against it
  • Definitions sheet: what each measure means, its formula, where the data comes from, and how often to review it
Workbook · Excel

5S & TPM Rollout Plan

The 12-week rollout, week by week: baseline and announce, Sort and Set in Order, Shine and Standardize, sustain systems, then review and re-audit.

  • 49 concrete actions, each with an owner role and a measurable "done when" test
  • Operator autonomous-maintenance steps 1–3 built into the plan, plus the PM calendar go-live
  • Red tag log, ready for the first sort event
  • 20-task daily/weekly operator TPM checklist with the standard for "good" written out for every task
Printable forms · PDF

Audit Forms Pack

Four print-and-carry forms, one per page, with plant, area, date, and auditor lines — the paper side of the system your auditors and shift leads use every week.

  • 5S audit score sheet — 25 checks across the five S's, scored out of 125
  • Layered process audit form — 12 station checks with a findings-to-action table
  • Gemba walk observation card — standard vs. actual vs. gap, with the coaching prompts
  • Standard work sheet — steps, key points, and times, with revision and approval lines
Training · PowerPoint

Supervisor Training Deck

A 20-slide deck in 8 modules that trains your front-line leaders to run the system you just rolled out — leader standard work, tier huddles, 5S sustain, problem response, coaching, the numbers, and a first-30-days plan.

  • Worked 5 Whys and fishbone examples from real production problems
  • OEE worked numerically on the slide, not hand-waved
  • Full speaker notes on every slide — facilitation guidance plus a floor example for each topic
Guide · PDF

Facilitator Guide

Everything the person running the training session needs: room and materials setup, then timed half-day (about 3.5 hours) and full-day (about 6.5–7 hours) plans.

  • Step-by-step instructions for all four training exercises
  • Answers and talking points — model 5 Whys chain, OEE walkthrough, what a good escalation sounds like
  • Slide-by-slide timing table, five pushback responses, and the two-week / 30-day follow-up mechanism
Guide · PDF

Implementation Guide

The 11-page master how-to that ties the whole kit together: how to run an honest assessment, read the dashboard without fooling yourself, and sequence the first 90 days.

  • The 90-day sequence in three phases, with tier-meeting charters and layered-audit cadence by level
  • A full worked example — a plant that scores 2.1 and cuts changeover from 74 to 51 minutes by day 90
  • Seven named failure modes — audit inflation, huddle decay, the red-tag graveyard, and more — each with its counter

Who this is for — and who it isn't

This kit is for you if…

  • You run a plant, a department, or a Lean program and need a straight, scored answer on where things stand
  • You've been handed a 5S, TPM, or operational-excellence rollout and don't want to build the whole system from a blank page
  • Your supervisors each run their shift their own way, and you need one common standard
  • You'd rather own the system outright than rent a platform or book a consulting engagement

It's not for you if…

  • You want software — the kit is workbooks, forms, and training. The shop-floor apps live on the software page
  • You want someone to come and do the audit for you — this is the do-it-yourself system, guides included
  • You need a certification course — this is a working plant system, not a credential program

Pricing — one-time, both licences get the whole kit

Same seven files either way. The only difference is how many plants you can run it in. Pay once, keep it, and re-run the assessment every quarter if you like.

Single plant

Single-Plant Licence

For one plant or site — every department and shift in it.

  • All 7 files: 3 Excel workbooks, training deck, 3 PDFs
  • Use across the whole site, all shifts
  • Re-run the assessment as often as you like
$299one-time
Or split it with Cash App: 3 weekly payments — $100, $100, then $99 — no interest, no fees.
Send payment 1 — $100 (how it works, below)
Company-wide

Company Licence

For every plant you run — roll the same system out site by site.

  • Everything in the Single-Plant Licence
  • Use at all your company's plants and sites
  • Share with your operations and Lean team company-wide
$799one-time
Or split it with Cash App: 4 weekly payments — $200, $200, $200, then $199 — no interest, no fees.
Send payment 1 — $200 (how it works, below)

One-time payment — no subscription, no renewal, no per-user fees.

Paying with Cash App? Put the product name and your email in the payment note — your download is emailed to you after payment.

How split payments work: send payment 1 from the licence card above, then send the rest weekly to $bms0842 in the amounts shown on the card. Put the kit name, your email, and the payment number (for example "payment 2 of 4") in each payment note. No interest and no fees, ever. The full kit is emailed to you as soon as the final payment lands. Need to skip a week? Email [email protected] — everything you have paid stays credited toward your kit.

Frequently asked questions

Is the kit a subscription?

No. The Plant Excellence Audit & Rollout Kit is a one-time purchase — $299 for a single plant, $799 company-wide. Download it once and it's yours to keep and reuse, including re-running the assessment as often as you want.

What format are the files?

Three Excel workbooks with live formulas (the assessment, the KPI dashboard pack, and the rollout plan), one PowerPoint deck (the supervisor training), and three PDFs (the printable audit forms, the facilitator guide, and the implementation guide) — seven files in one download.

What software do I need to use it?

Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, or the free LibreOffice suite — the workbooks use standard formulas that calculate the same way in both; the verification pass on these files was done in LibreOffice. The PDFs print on any office printer, Letter size.

Which licence do I need?

One plant or site: the Single-Plant Licence. More than one site, or a corporate operations/Lean team rolling the system out plant to plant: the Company Licence. The files are identical — only the usage rights differ.

Is this the same as the $49.95 apps?

No. The $49.95 products on the software page are shop-floor software — OEE monitoring, MES, andon, CAPA tracking, and the rest. The kit is the management system around them: the plant assessment, the 90-day rollout plan, the audit forms, and the supervisor training. They work well together, and they're sold separately.