Operations improvement prompt for PowerPoint

Operations improvement review prompt

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Create a 10-slide operations review from production, quality, downtime, and delivery files.
Audience: COO, plant manager, and supply chain leads.
Decision: select the first constraint to fix and assign a 90-day recovery plan.
Show throughput, OEE, delivery, scrap, downtime causes, capacity, and supplier issues.
Use a Pareto chart, trend, root-cause view, and action tracker.
Do not claim causality without evidence. Flag inconsistent definitions.

Why this prompt works

• One constraint, not ten

  "Select the first constraint to fix" pushes the deck toward the single bottleneck that limits output, rather than a long list of improvement ideas.

• A Pareto ranks the causes

  A Pareto chart sorts downtime causes by hours with a cumulative line, so the audience sees which few causes account for most of the lost time.

• No causality without evidence

  "Do not claim causality without evidence" keeps the root-cause view honest when the data only shows that two things happened in the same weeks.

• Definitions are checked

  "Flag inconsistent definitions" catches plant data where OEE or on-time delivery is measured differently across lines or sites.

Adapt it to your own deck

• Match your metrics

  Swap in the KPIs you track. A warehouse might write "Show order cycle time, pick accuracy, dock-to-stock time and labor productivity" in place of OEE and scrap.

• Change the recovery window

  Ninety days suits a plant issue. For a supplier problem with long lead times, ask for "a 6-month plan with monthly checkpoints and named owners."

• Present to the shop floor

  For a team huddle, set "Audience: line supervisors" and cut to 3 slides: the Pareto, the weekly trend and the action tracker with owners and dates.

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