INSIDE THE PLATFORM

WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET
FOR $299 A MONTH.

Sharpen is not a content library with a login. It is a live operating system. Your daily dashboard, your 80-question plant audit, 17 working operations tools, 100 implementation guides, 92 templates. Everything that the Fortune 500 manufacturers spend millions building internally, sequenced and pre-built for your plant.

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EVERY MORNING

DAILY OPERATING DASHBOARD

Live exceptions, today's must-hits with timing, yesterday's misses, three KPI sparklines, rhythm-install compliance, recent plant activity. Built to be the only page your supervisors load before walking the floor.

  • Auto-detected live exceptions: stale issues, open near-misses, safety not logged, certs expiring
  • Phase 1 rhythm compliance: are your four basics holding (handoff, board, safety, OEE)?
  • OEE 7-day sparkline pulled live from the OEE Tracker
  • Activity strip showing what your team has done in the last 24h

EVERY 6 MONTHS

80-QUESTION PLANT AUDIT

Walk the floor with the LOOK / ASK / ANSWER protocol. Auto-saves every answer. Resume on any device. Results scorecard with the ceiling rule, top 10 gaps, recommended guides, stage deltas vs. your last audit. Emailable, printable, downloadable as PDF.

  • Pulls from the 80-question Sharpen scorecard rebuilt as a web form
  • Ceiling rule enforced: if any of P1/P2/P5/P6 is at Stage 1, overall caps at Stage 1
  • Stage deltas per pillar when history exists
  • Email a copy to your PE owner; print a PDF for the wall

EVERY DAY

17 LIVE OPERATIONS TOOLS

Not Excel templates. Not PDFs. Live, multi-user tools that share data and route work between each other. Organized by where they earn their keep on your operating journey.

RHYTHM (WEEK 1)

Daily operating cadence. Install these first; everything else depends on them.

  • PRODUCTION MEETING BOARD

    Daily 10-15 minute board. Safety, results, plan, issues, people, CI.

  • SAFETY CROSS

    Daily status, near-miss reporting, monthly safety calendar.

  • SHIFT HANDOFF

    Structured shift-to-shift handoff with rolling open issues.

  • OEE TRACKER

    Daily OEE entry by line, weekly trend, monthly executive view.

STABILIZE (MONTHS 1-3)

Predictable shifts, structured handoffs, visible standards. The system you can sustain.

  • DOWNTIME REASON CODES

    Real-time event log with reason codes and Pareto roll-up.

  • GEMBA WALK TRACKER

    Standard route observations, photos, follow-up tracking.

  • 5S SUSTAIN AUDITS

    Weekly 5S audits per workstation with photos and trend.

  • STANDARD WORK

    Operator job element sheet. Takt + cycle + walk path. The artifact 5S exists to produce.

OPTIMIZE (MONTHS 3-12)

Attack waste at the source. Standard work + improvement loops.

  • VALUE STREAM MAP

    End-to-end flow with cycle/changeover/WIP per step. Identifies the constraint and the queues.

  • SHARPEN PARETO

    Top losses by category. Pareto chart, drivers drill-down, recommended actions.

  • KAIZEN IDEA BOARD

    Floor-level idea capture. Operators post, supervisors triage, ideas promote to Kaizen projects.

  • KAIZEN PIPELINE

    CI projects from idea to sustained, ROI roll-up.

  • POKA-YOKE WORKSHEET

    Failure mode to mistake-proof. Build quality in at the source.

  • SMED QUICK CHANGEOVER

    Convert internal setup tasks to external. Halve your changeover.

SUSTAIN (YEAR 1+)

Compounding tools. Each one builds on a year of data.

  • SKILLS MATRIX

    Operator capability tracking, certifications, cross-training plan.

  • A3 LIBRARY

    Active A3s, mentor review, sustain checks, yokoten log.

ALWAYS ON

IMPLEMENTATION LIBRARY

Every action on your roadmap has a corresponding playbook. 100 implementation guides (who runs it, what to say, what to measure) and 92 ready-to-use templates (trackers, forms, dashboards). Filter by pillar, mark as done, star what you actually use.

  • 100 step-by-step implementation guides, one per management practice
  • 92 Excel templates with formulas, sample data, and instructions
  • Per-user progress tracking: status + star, persisted across devices
  • Filter by pillar, search by keyword, cross-linked from every operations tool

THE FIRST 14 DAYS

COURSEWORK ENGINE

A 14-day install sequence that walks you through the rhythm tools in order. Auto-detects when you have logged a handoff, an OEE entry, a Gemba walk, a board meeting. The platform marks the action complete; the user moves on. No checklist grinding.

TEAM-WIDE

MULTI-USER, ROLE-AWARE, AUDIT-LOGGED

Invite supervisors, mentors, operators. Plant-member roles. Every action writes to an audit log so leadership can see what happened, when, and by whom. Activity feed surfaces every signed handoff, completed walk, verified poka-yoke.

READY TO INSTALL THIS?

$299 A MONTH. CANCEL ANY TIME.

One plant. Unlimited users on your team. Every guide, every template, every tool. Roadmap rebuilds at any time. No long-term contract, no setup fee, no per-seat pricing. If it is not the right fit, cancel in two clicks from your account page.

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