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Manufacturing Document Builder: Digitize every shop floor process with our no-code form builder

LeanSuite's manufacturing document builder, Lean Creator, is a no-code tool for building digital checklists, audits, SOPs, one point lessons, quizzes and forms, from scratch or from an AI draft.

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BUILT FOR THE SHOP FLOOR

A document builder for how your plant really works

Turn any paper process into a digital form, from a safety observation to a multi-stage quality audit.

Field types (dropdown, date, number, text, image, check list, rating) next to a safety observation form built from them

Easy field selection

Pick the response types you need from one list, no code required.

Safety check where a No answer asks for a photo and a supervisor signature

Advanced field options

Photos, signatures, dropdowns and conditional logic that reacts to each answer.

A start-up checklist on a phone next to the list of published forms, each live on phone, tablet and desktop

Instant mobile deployment

Every published form works on phones, tablets and desktops, so data is collected where the work happens.

LEAN CREATOR IN DETAIL

Build it, publish it, assign it

  • Required fields, properties and rules

    Make it required, set choices or limits, and add rules that flag, follow up, notify or raise a tag, idea or Kaizen.

  • Scoring with a pass mark

    Points per answer and a pass mark; each report shows pass or fail.

  • Pages, sections and live preview

    Split long forms into pages and sections, with a live preview.

  • Visibility

    Your plant, every plant in your company, or the public marketplace.

ENDLESS APPLICATIONS

One builder, every manufacturing process

One tool for every document your plant runs on:

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Go from paper to digital in minutes

Upload an existing paper form or describe what you need and the AI drafts it, or clone a template from the marketplace and customize it.

Explore the MarketplaceTemplate marketplace of quality, 5S, safety, maintenance and operations templates, next to a paper form made digital
Flagged 5S audit responses, with one answer opened to create an issue, assign a task, launch a kaizen or submit an idea

CONNECTED WORKFLOW

Turn a flagged answer into action

A flagged answer can start a task, an issue ticket, a kaizen, an idea or a training assignment in LeanSuite, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Corrective action from a 5S audit with a recommended, qualified assignee

Assign tasks

Assign a corrective action straight from the flagged answer.

Maintenance issue ticket raised from a flagged 5S audit answer, waiting for approval

Create issue ticket

Log an issue ticket for maintenance to pick up.

Kaizen with a week-long action plan and a team of three

Launch kaizen

Start a kaizen when the problem needs more than a quick fix.

New idea from a 5S audit added to the suggestions list

Submit idea

Send it to your suggestion system as an idea.

Skills matrix showing a spill response gap and the training module assigned to fill it

Assign training

Assign a training module to the employees who need it, with a due date.

AUTOMATED REPORTING

From form data to decisions

Every answer feeds charts and reports automatically, so you stop building charts in spreadsheets.

Live dashboard of form results with checklists completed per day, failed checks by line and today's totals

Real-time dashboards

Share live dashboards that show performance from the shop floor to the top floor.

Failed checks per week over 12 weeks, with a marker where a new checklist version started

Trend analysis

Track metrics over time and measure the impact of changes.

Pareto chart of failed safety inspection items with a cumulative percentage line and the top three causes highlighted

Pareto analysis

Find the vital few problems behind most of your issues.

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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. A manufacturing document builder is a no-code tool for turning paper forms, checklists, audits and instructions into digital documents. LeanSuite's is called Lean Creator.

  2. Create a template from scratch or with AI, add questions, rules and scoring, and publish it. Then assign it and schedule it in Daily Standard Work.

  3. Yes. Upload a PDF or image of the form and the AI drafts a digital version, or clone a marketplace template.

  4. Every form filled digitally is a form that was not printed, filed or shredded. LeanSuite does not yet turn that into carbon or paper figures; theleansuite.com/sustainability explains what it records today and how such a report would be worked out.

  5. Yes. Rules can require a photo and comment, and scoring sets a pass mark.

  6. AI drafts are visible only to you. Saved templates can be private to your plant, shared company-wide, or public in the marketplace.

  7. Yes. It runs in the browser and iOS and Android apps, and shared tablets work with employee-ID sign-in.

  8. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and the platform is hosted on industry-leading cloud infrastructure. Granular user permissions let you control who sees what.

  9. LeanSuite offers direct API connections and automated file exports, so data collected in your forms can be shared with your ERP, MES or other systems.

FREE RESOURCES

Free templates and tools

Not ready for software yet? Start with these free resources.

Ready to go paperless?

See how the Lean Creator helps you build digital forms, cut manual data entry and get more out of your shop floor data.

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