Audit compliance with the standard (layered audits)
Have each level of management check at the workstation whether the standard is followed, with a short checklist, and give each finding an owner.
The task in figures
- Gives you back
- 4.7 h a monthper team; today it takes 5.8 to 13.4 h a month
- Elmira today
- Helps
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Who does it today
- Analyst, Engineer
- Version
- Elmira Junior
What hurts today.
The results stay on paper nobody adds up.
Nobody notices an audit that was not done.
The findings get written down, and repeat the next week.
A standard holds if someone looks at it. In layered audits, each level (supervisor, manager, plant manager) checks a few workstations every week with a short checklist, and each deviation is fixed or becomes an action. The analyst sets the calendar, gathers the results, reports compliance by area and chases the findings. It falls apart when the results live on paper and nobody hears about an audit that was not done.
Done today with
- On the floor
- Paper and whiteboard
- Spreadsheet
- Email and chat
- Slides
Each step, today and with Elmira.
Whoever audits sends Elmira the result on WhatsApp: she records it in its indicator, sets each finding down as an action with its owner and tells you how each area is doing. If an audit was not done in its period, Obeyaka tells the team leader on its own.
| Step | Today | With Elmira |
|---|---|---|
| Set the audit calendar by level | Spreadsheet15 min – 30 min | Still by hand |
| Each level audits its workstations with the checklist | On the floor, Paper and whiteboard | Your call |
| Record each audit’s result | Spreadsheet, Paper and whiteboard10 min – 30 min | |
| Turn each finding into an action with an owner | Spreadsheet, Email and chat10 min – 30 min | |
| Report compliance by area | Spreadsheet, Slides20 min – 45 min | |
| Follow the findings until they are closed | Spreadsheet, Email and chat15 min – 30 min | Automatic |
| Warn when an audit was not done | Email and chat10 min – 20 min | Automatic |
The conversation
- Paula, Packaging supervisor
Elmira, today’s audit at sealer 2 scored 85%. The parameter sheet was missing at the workstation: Pedro Rojas should put it up by tomorrow.
I did this:
Recorded 85 in “Standard compliance” for October 15, 2026.
If something is not right, press “Undo” within 24 hours.
Create the action “Put up the parameter sheet at sealer 2”
Goal: Cut Packaging’s waste
Team: Packaging
Responsible: Pedro Rojas
Due on October 16, 2026
- Paula, Packaging supervisor
Approve
Done: I created the action “Put up the parameter sheet at sealer 2”.
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- Map a process end to end (SIPOC)“The process” means something different to each person.
- Diagram a process’s detailed flow (flowchart or swimlane)The procedure says one thing, and the work is done another way.