Written by people who have run the meeting.
Six guides on how a manufacturing site actually runs its day. Each one covers what the practice is, where it breaks down on real sites, and what it looks like when it runs on one source of truth.
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01RCPSRead
Root Cause Problem Solving, without the paperwork theatre.
The methods that actually get used on site, why investigations die in spreadsheets, and how to leave every case with a cause, actions and owners.
Tom Cotham & Nathan Lansley · Updated 29 Aug 2026
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02Short-interval controlRead
Short-interval control: catch the miss while the shift can still fix it.
The cadence that makes it work, what a good board shows, the common failure modes, and how to run it on live numbers instead of re-typed packs.
Tom Cotham & Nathan Lansley · Updated 29 Aug 2026
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03Shift handoverRead
Shift handover: where the day’s truth goes to die.
What a complete handover contains, the three ways it fails, and how to carry it onto the board the next shift runs on.
Tom Cotham & Nathan Lansley · Updated 29 Aug 2026
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04Tiered meetingsRead
Tiered meetings: one truth at three altitudes.
Tier 1 at the line, tier 2 in the area, tier 3 at site level. What each should see, why tiers drift apart, and how to run all three on one picture.
Tom Cotham & Nathan Lansley · Updated 29 Aug 2026
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05FMECARead
FMECA: the failure catalogue your site already paid for.
FMEA versus FMECA, what criticality buys you, why most FMECAs go stale on a file share, and what a living one looks like.
Tom Cotham & Nathan Lansley · Updated 29 Aug 2026
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06Beyond OEERead
OEE tells you what you lost. It doesn’t tell you what to do.
What the score is genuinely good for, where dashboards built on it fall short, and what to look for beyond it.
Tom Cotham & Nathan Lansley · Updated 29 Aug 2026
See it on a running site.
Thirty minutes, on a live board. No slide deck. Bring the people who run the shift.