Make the fixes everyone agrees on actually hold.
Continuous Improvement takes the things everyone agrees you should fix and gives each one an owner, a status, and statistical proof it worked. Every item is tied to a real metric and stays open until the data shows the change moved OEE or cut losses — and that the gain held.
Capture, own, finish, prove. Then again.
Improvement only counts when it lands and you can show it landed. Every idea runs through the same four stages, and a validated result is what points to the next one.
Capture the idea
Log an improvement the moment it surfaces — a recurring stop, a missed target, a fix raised in a downtime review. It stops living on a whiteboard.
Assign an owner
Give it a named owner, a target date, and the line or reason it targets — so it’s clear who’s carrying it and what done looks like.
Track to done
Move it from Proposed to Implementing to Measuring as the work happens. The status stays visible instead of fading after the meeting.
Validate with data
Check the metric it targeted actually moved before calling it done. A result that holds is the proof — and the cue for the next idea.
↻ a validated result feeds the next improvement
An action carries its own proof, stage by stage.
Open any action and the same record follows it through the stages: proposed with a target, implemented, measured against the months that follow, and finally validated.
Reduce jam downtime · Line 1
Reduce jam downtime · Line 1
Reduce jam downtime · Line 1
Reduce jam downtime · Line 1
It tells you whether the change actually worked.
Each improvement is tied to the metric it targets, and it isn’t done until the data shows that metric moved — by enough to matter, and that it stayed moved over the months that follow.
Tied to a real metric, not a vibe
Every improvement points at something measurable: an OEE figure, a reason code, a downtime total on a specific line. When the work is finished, the same number is checked again — so closing an item means the loss it targeted actually shrank.
And it’s a statistical comparison, not a good-day reading. The result is weighed against the line’s normal run-to-run variation in the months after the change, so an improvement only counts when the numbers show a real shift, not noise.
Action impact · Line 1 downtime (h/mo)
▼ change heldIllustrative: pre vs. post trend with the significance test, measured across the 90 days after the change.
The best ideas come from losses you can already see.
You don’t have to go looking for what to improve. The work the suite already surfaces is the backlog — the losses, trends and stops your team stares at every day, or a question you put to Advisor that becomes the next action.
Top losses
The biggest losses on the floor right now, ranked by how much they cost you.
OEE ExplorerTrends
OEE and downtime trends that show which lines and shifts keep slipping.
OEE Work TrackerStops
The recurring and extended stops operators are already logging with reasons.
AdvisorA question
Ask Advisor what’s dragging OEE and turn its answer straight into a tracked action.
See Continuous Improvement on your own floor.
It’s in active development. Book a demo with ACI — your OEE IntelliSuite partner in Belgium & Benelux — and we’ll walk through the direction and how it fits the way your teams already run improvement work.