| Answer how an indicator is doing | Junior | Does it | 4.2 h a month | Daily | |
| Collect indicator data | Junior | Helps | 4.3 h a month | Weekly | |
| Flag deviations in time | Junior | Helps | 1.8 h a month | Weekly | |
| Put together the weekly indicator report | Junior | Helps | 5.1 h a month | Weekly | |
| Check the quality of the data | Junior | Does it | 0.8 h a month | Monthly | |
| Prepare the monthly management report | Junior | Helps | 2 h a month | Monthly | |
| Roll up the indicators of several teams | Junior | Does it | 1.5 h a month | Monthly | |
| Set an indicator’s target | Junior | Helps | 0.2 h a month | Quarterly | |
| Keep the KPI dictionary | Manager | Helps | 0.3 h a month | Quarterly | |
| Design the KPI tree | Manager | Helps | 0.1 h a month | Yearly | |
| Connect the indicators to their source systems | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Define a new indicator | Junior | Helps | — | As needed | |
| Run the start-of-shift daily huddle | Junior | Helps | 7 h a month | Daily | |
| Run the team’s weekly briefing | Junior | Does it | 5.1 h a month | Weekly | |
| Run the team’s weekly debriefing | Junior | Helps | 3.6 h a month | Weekly | |
| Escalate a problem to the level that can solve it | Junior | Helps | 1.1 h a month | Weekly | |
| Go to the gemba: see where the work happens | Junior | Does it | 2.5 h a month | Weekly | |
| Define and follow the leader’s standard work | Senior | Helps | 1.4 h a month | Weekly | |
| Check that each team holds its routines | Junior | Helps | 1.2 h a month | Monthly | |
| Run the period’s planning | Junior | Helps | 0.5 h a month | Quarterly | |
| Design the tiered meeting system and its escalation | Manager | Helps | 0.1 h a month | Yearly | |
| Gather progress from the floor | Junior | Does it | 8.8 h a month | Daily | |
| Record the plan’s actions | Junior | Does it | 1.4 h a month | Weekly | |
| Tell each owner about the action assigned to them | Junior | Does it | 1.4 h a month | Weekly | |
| Chase pending and overdue actions | Junior | Does it | 2.5 h a month | Weekly | |
| Close the actions that are done | Junior | Does it | 1.2 h a month | Weekly | |
| Report the action plan’s status: on time, late and done | Junior | Helps | 2.9 h a month | Weekly | |
| Reschedule or reassign an action | Junior | Helps | 0.7 h a month | Weekly | |
| Ask for and keep the evidence of a done action | Junior | Helps | 0.4 h a month | Weekly | |
| Check whether the actions moved the indicator | Junior | Helps | 0.7 h a month | Monthly | |
| Gather the problems people on the floor report | Junior | Helps | 5.3 h a month | Daily | |
| Spot the problems in the indicators’ deviations | Junior | Helps | 1.4 h a month | Weekly | |
| Keep the list of open problems and their status | Junior | On the way | 0 h a month | Weekly | |
| Record the lessons learned | Junior | Helps | 1.1 h a month | Weekly | |
| Check that the solution worked and holds | Junior | Helps | 0.6 h a month | Monthly | |
| Define the problem with data: what, where, when and how much | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Research good practices, standards and benchmarks for a problem | Junior | Does it | — | Per project | |
| Analyse the root cause with the team | Junior | On the way | — | Per project | |
| Turn the countermeasures into actions with an owner and a date | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Write and keep up a problem’s A3 | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Lead an 8D after a customer complaint | Senior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Lead a DMAIC project | Senior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Spread a solution to other teams (yokoten) | Manager | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Contain an urgent problem on the line | Junior | Helps | — | As needed | |
| Audit compliance with the standard (layered audits) | Junior | Helps | 4.7 h a month | Weekly | |
| Run the 5S audits and follow up their findings | Junior | Helps | 1 h a month | Monthly | |
| Map a process end to end (SIPOC) | Junior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Diagram a process’s detailed flow (flowchart or swimlane) | Junior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Map the value stream (VSM), current and future | Senior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Spot the waste in a process | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Time the work and run work studies | Junior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Document the standard work or the procedure | Junior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Teach the standard at the workstation (TWI) | Junior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Keep the procedures up to date after an improvement | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Track each line’s and shift’s OEE | Junior | Helps | 8.8 h a month | Daily | |
| Cut changeover times (SMED) | Senior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Implement total productive maintenance (TPM) | Senior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Design a kanban or pull system | Senior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Balance a line to the takt time | Junior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Redesign an area’s layout | Senior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Design error-proofing devices (poka-yoke) | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Level production (heijunka) | Senior | Not covered | — | Per project | |
| Set up visual management on the floor (andon, floor marking) | Junior | Helps | — | Per project | |
| Find and manage the bottleneck | Senior | Helps | — | Per project | |