The process diagnostic

Find the waste first.
Measure it before anything gets fixed.

A diagnostic is a structured walk of your floor and your files, measured before anything is changed. You get the findings in writing, in priority order — where material, time, and quality are being lost, and which fixes are worth doing first. Every engagement starts here.

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Diagnostic: $400–$600, one time. In the Las Vegas valley? Start with the free walkthrough below.

How you get to a diagnostic

Three steps, and the first two are free. Nothing is sold before anyone has seen the floor.

1

Free intro call

Your shop, your bottleneck, your timeline. If it's not a fit, I'll say so.

2

Free walkthrough — Las Vegas valley

If you're local, the next step is a walkthrough of your floor: one to two hours, no charge. It's a mutual assessment. You assess me — how I look at a floor, what I notice, how I work with your operators. I assess whether I can actually help. And I show you the work, not a pitch: you'll see the first waste I'd measure, and where.

3

The diagnostic

After the walkthrough I'll send a short written summary of what I saw, with the option to book the full diagnostic. That's where the measuring happens and the findings get priced in your own numbers.

Not local? The walkthrough is a Las Vegas valley offer. Everywhere else starts with the intro call, and the diagnostic runs on site — I'm based in Las Vegas and travel to shop floors across the United States.

What happens during a diagnostic

I work on the floor, with the people who run it. Nothing is changed during a diagnostic — changing things before measuring them is how shops end up fixing the wrong problem.

On the floor

  • I walk the process end to end, the way work actually moves — not the way the layout says it should
  • I watch setups and changeovers, where the day quietly goes
  • I look at where scrap and rework show up, and trace them back toward where they're born
  • I talk to your operators. They usually already know where the waste is; nobody has written it down

In the files and the numbers

  • I review the production files behind the work — programs, setups, instructions — for waste built into the job itself
  • I measure before anything is touched, so every finding has a baseline
  • I put your own numbers on what I find: material, time, and quality, in the units your shop already uses
  • I rank it. A short list of fixes in priority order beats a long list nobody starts

What you get, in writing

The diagnostic ends with a written report, not a meeting full of impressions.

  • Where material is being lost, and how much
  • Where time is being lost — changeovers, waiting, motion, rework
  • Where quality is being lost — where defects start, not just where they're caught
  • What each item is worth in your own numbers
  • The fixes, in priority order, with the first one scoped tightly enough to start

Diagnostic

$400–$600
one time · priced on the intro call, before any visit is booked

From the findings, any follow-on work is quoted as a fixed-scope sprint — fixed scope, fixed quote, no hourly meter. The measured results behind this approach are on the case study page.

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Your floor stays yours

Everything I see and hear in your shop — processes, products, customers, numbers — is confidential. I don't share it, copy it, or reuse it anywhere else. If you have an NDA, I'll sign it before the diagnostic starts.

Start with an intro call

Intro calls are free. Tell me your shop size and your biggest bottleneck, and I'll tell you honestly whether a diagnostic is worth your money.

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