Want your people to engage in lean? Make it part of the job. Build improvement, SOPs, and multi-skilling into every role, then link progression and pay.
Six factories, four days, one lap around Michigan. Here’s what we saw on the Lean USA Tour, from built-in quality checks to a two-day lead time.
You can now build training courses direct in GembaDocs! Plus see planned training on your skills matrix, customize advanced SOPs, and more in this month’s update.
See how a training classroom in Brazil applies 5S and standard work to every detail, from name tags to the coffee station, and what it means for total responsibility on your own floor.
GembaDocs took home Gold at the 2026 Industry Eagles Awards for its mobile-first platform helping frontline manufacturing teams document and manage SOPs. Here’s what the judges had to say.
Russell Watkins breaks down the habits that separate strong lean leaders from the rest, from how they run Gemba walks to why “the standard you walk past” needs a second look.
Learn when a basic visual work instruction gets the job done and when you need a training standard that explains the why behind every step, not just the what.
This month brings Skills Coverage grap tracking, editable Word Doc SOPs and a new training tab, plus more.
Checklist SOPs, a full app refresh, AI-generated reasons why for Advanced SOPs, Chrome extension updates, performance improvements, and new Irish language support.
New TWI-based SOP format, folder reordering and hierarchy improvements, easier feedback QR codes, a fix to approval workflow access, expanded public API data, and support for Thai and Myanmar.