For manufacturing SMEs

Your margin is leaking
somewhere in your operation.
Here is how to find it.

16 operational diagnostic tools built with manufacturing practitioners across industry. Score your operation. Get a prioritised action plan in plain English. No consultancy. No implementation. No jargon.

£340k
Average hidden waste cost per year in a 50-person manufacturer
16
Diagnostic tools across quality, ops, people and strategy
£29
Per tool per month. Free diagnostic on every tool.
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Built with operational excellence practitioners across manufacturing, TIC, and capital equipment
Diagnosis AND prescription — not just a dashboard
Free diagnostic score on every tool
Tools that talk to each other
Why it is different

Built with practitioners.
Not by a vendor.

Most operational excellence software is built by software companies who researched manufacturing. Mandate OpEx Toolkit was built in collaboration with experienced operations leaders, quality directors, and general managers who have spent their careers doing this work — in real businesses, under real pressure, across manufacturing, testing, inspection, and capital equipment sectors.

That means the questions we ask are the right questions. The benchmarks reflect real operations. The action plans are things that can actually be done on a Monday morning — not a consultant recommendation that sits in a report.

25+
Years of combined manufacturing operations experience behind every tool
16
Diagnostic tools across quality, operations, people and strategy
£0
Cost to run a diagnostic score on any tool. Always free.
10
Free downloadable audit sheets. No login. Immediate value.
The problem

You know something is wrong.
You just cannot pinpoint it.

Manufacturing SMEs lose significant margin to problems they can feel but cannot measure. The tools that exist to fix this are either built for global enterprises with implementation teams — or they are dashboards that show you the score without telling you what to do about it.

60%
Average OEE for a discrete manufacturer
World class is 85%. The gap is capacity you already own but cannot access — without buying a single new machine.
£340k
Typical hidden waste cost in a 50-person manufacturer
Most business owners know this waste exists. Almost none can quantify it. Our Cost of Waste Calculator gives you the number in under 5 minutes.
80%
Of AI projects fail without a readiness assessment
SMEs are investing in AI without knowing if their data or processes are ready. Most are not. Our AI Readiness Diagnostic tells you in 5 minutes — free.
The toolkit

16 tools.
One platform.
All connected.

Every tool scores your current state and tells you the three things to do next — in plain English. And your tools talk to each other. OEE links to maintenance maturity. Skills matrix links to capacity. Everything feeds the MD Cockpit.

The design principle
Every other tool shows you the score and stops. Mandate OpEx Toolkit shows you the score and tells you exactly what to do about it — in the language of the factory floor, not a consultant's slide deck.
OEE Calculator and Advisor
Free score
Score availability, performance and quality. Get the 3 most likely root causes and a ranked fix list.
Operations
Cost of Waste Calculator
Live now
Quantify your hidden waste in pounds per year. The number that makes the business case for everything else.
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AI Readiness Diagnostic
Free score
5 manufacturing-specific dimensions. Know if your business is ready for AI before spending anything on it.
Strategy
Operational Audit
Free score
Full SQCDP-based business health check. 8 sections. Traffic light output. Prioritised action plan.
Quality
Skills Matrix Builder
Coming soon
See your skills coverage gaps and single points of failure. Know if you can run every line, every shift.
People
Maintenance Maturity Checker
Coming soon
Score all 8 TPM pillars. Understand why your availability is low and what to fix first.
Operations
SMED Changeover Analyser
Coming soon
Calculate pounds per month lost to changeover. Get a ranked internal vs external action list.
Operations
Strategy Deployment Planner
Coming soon
Hoshin Kanri in plain English. Set breakthrough objectives and cascade them to the shop floor.
Strategy
Plus 8 more tools: 5S Assessment, Capacity Planner, Supplier Health Check, Quality Culture Checker, Root Cause Analysis, Kaizen Log, Change Readiness Checker, and the MD Cockpit — which aggregates all your scores into one business dashboard.
How it works

From audit sheet to operational clarity in four steps.

1
Download a free audit sheet
Start with a free, immediately useful diagnostic sheet. No login. No credit card. Ten sheets covering every dimension of your operation.
2
Run a free diagnostic score
Take any tool for free. See your score. Understand exactly where you stand. No commitment required to get real value.
3
Unlock your action plan
Pay to unlock the prioritised action plan, industry benchmarks, PDF report and AI advisor. From £29 per tool per month.
4
Connect the toolkit
Add more tools. Watch the intelligence compound. OEE links to maintenance. Skills links to capacity. Everything feeds the MD Cockpit.
We are building this right now — and we want your input.

Mandate OpEx Toolkit is currently in development. We are not promising something that does not exist — we are inviting the people who will use it to help shape what gets built first. Join the waitlist and we will be in touch to ask what you actually need before we build it. Your sector, your role, your problems — this is how we make sure we build the right things in the right order.

  • Waitlist members get first access to every tool as it launches
  • First 200 get 3 months free on any tool — no conditions attached
  • Your feedback shapes the build sequence and feature priorities
  • Free audit sheets available to download right now — no waitlist needed
Pricing

Start free. Pay only for what you use.

Every tool has a free diagnostic score — no credit card, no login. Pay when you want the action plan, benchmarks, and PDF report.

Audit sheets
£0
All 10 audit sheets, always free. Download, no login, no credit card. The starting point for every user.
Diagnostic score
£0
Run any diagnostic on any tool. See your score. Understand where you stand. No commitment required.
Most popular
Single tool
Early access pricing announced at launch
Full action plan, industry benchmarks, PDF report, AI advisor, and saved results for one tool.
Full suite
Early access pricing announced at launch
All 16 tools, CRM, MD Cockpit, and AI ask-anything layer. Your whole operation in one platform.
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Your operation has
hidden capacity.
Find it.

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