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Digital Kamishibai for Operational Excellence

Standards don't fall apart overnight. They weaken week by week.

With Qards, you see it before your KPIs do.

Qards /kɑːrdz/ - like "cards".

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The quiet decay of a standard

Nobody decides to drop a standard. When output is behind, one shift skips a check, then the next one does too, and nobody sees it, on the floor or in the office. Your KPIs show it last, weeks too late.

Today
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Machine A
Machine B
Assembly

From the shop floor to the manager and back

One card, one full cycle. Every station, every shift.

  1. 1

    The station logs the standard

    Whoever is at the board logs the card for the station, with the station's PIN. No account, no paperwork.

  2. 2

    It flags an issue or proposes a suggestion

    Something wrong? The station flags an issue on the card, and it goes straight to whoever owns it. A better way? It proposes a suggestion.

  3. 3

    The manager answers openly

    The issue gets resolved. The suggestion gets adopted, or declined with a reason the station can read.

  4. 4

    The floor sees the answer

    The answer comes back to the same card, at the station. Nothing gets lost in a hallway conversation.

Tasks for Today

Machine A

5S Check

Verify workstation cleanliness

You'll see it before your KPIs do

Qards reads what your boards log against the results you already track.

Discipline rate

For each metric, the share of its related cards that were actually logged. When it slides, you see it on the trend, not at the month-end review.

MTD Forecast

Where this month's execution is heading, while there is still time to act.

Four quadrants

Green board, red KPI: the cards are logged, yet the result misses its target. Either the standard is wrong, or the log isn't telling the whole truth. Qards shows where to look, without naming anyone to blame.

Effective
Discipline high, target met
Wrong Assumptions
Discipline high, target missed
Overprocessing
Discipline low, target met
Lack of Discipline
Discipline low, target missed

Live Execution Status

00:00

Execution Rate

92%
+4% compared to last week

Open Issues

2
Machine B, Packing

Your managers, supported

Your managers are the ones who keep a standard alive. Qards is there to help them do it, not to police them.

  • They know what is expected of them: it is on the cards.
  • They have their own queue of issues and suggestions to answer.
  • They see where discipline slips, before it reaches you.

The standard, the open issues and the history stay on the board when the supervisor changes.

Issue Reported
10 min ago

Oil Leak

Machine B
John Doe
Assigned to:Maintenance

How we start

One plant at a time. You see Qards working on your own floor before you commit to a license.

  1. 1

    Audit

    We walk your floor and your current boards with you, and agree which area and which standards the pilot covers. The plant license is quoted after the audit.

  2. 2

    3-month Pilot

    Qards runs in one area of your plant. Our team sets up the boards for you, and your crews log from day one.

  3. 3

    Plant License

    One yearly license for the whole plant, with no per-seat costs. Each plant is licensed separately.

Included

  • Unlimited boards
  • Operators free: an operator profile and a PIN, no accounts
  • Unlimited TV displays, free forever
  • Concierge Onboarding
  • AI-written report summary
  • PDF and CSV export
Start with an audit

Software meets Lean

Qards was built where software engineering meets Lean methodology - two crafts in one operating system for the physical world.

Kamil Homernik
Software Engineer

Kamil Homernik

Founder & CEO

Co-built a compliance system for the agriculture industry that removed $70M+ of regulatory risk. Now building Qards to bring operational discipline to every deskless workforce.

Joanna Czerska
Lean Methodologist

Joanna Czerska

Methodology Director, LeanQ Team Ltd.

Methodology director at LeanQ and lecturer at Politechnika Gdańska. Decades of Lean practice codified into Qards - the methodology behind every card, metric, and report.

Questions operations leaders ask

Straight answers on how Qards works on the floor, how a pilot runs and how the plant license is quoted.

Talk to us about your plant

Book a call, or leave a message and we'll get back to you.

30 minutes with the founder: your floor, your standards, and whether a pilot makes sense.

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