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The Cadence Standard.
Practical lean tools for mid-market manufacturers.
Tools, not theory. Built by an ops leader. £97 to start.
What this is for
Most mid-market sites are leaking money to losses they can't see.
Not from breakdowns. From the routine stuff that nobody owns.
A changeover that should take 22 minutes that takes 95. A line running 4% under nameplate speed every shift. A 5S programme that died in month two.
The Cadence Standard is the working set of tools that fixes that. The same audit forms, FI Wave templates, SOPs and KPI dashboards world-class manufacturers use — packaged so any ops manager can pick them up and run with them on Monday morning.
No consultant required. No software to license. No subscription.
Free tools
Two diagnostics. Both give you a branded PDF report you can take to Monday's huddle.
5S Audit
25 questions · 5 minutes
Score your site against the five S's. Branded PDF report with prioritised next steps.
Run the audit →
5-Box Loss Diagnostic
15 questions · 3 minutes
Rank your five biggest losses, with a £/year impact estimate and the lean tool that fixes each one.
Run the diagnostic →
The product
The Cadence Standard Toolkit
Eight tabs of working tools, fully populated with worked examples. £97 · Single Excel workbook · Instant download.
Get the Toolkit — £97-
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Loss Summary
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FI Wave Planner
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5S Audit
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04
CI Register
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SMED Analysis
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Wave Closure
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RCA
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KPI Dashboard
Cadence Six
The three-step diagnostic that tells you exactly where to start.
Free 24-question assessment. £97-197 playbook for the team. £3-10k done-with-you programme for whole-site transformation.
- FREE Take the Assessment24 questions, six axes, traffic-light report.
- £97 Run the PlaybookSelf-paced workbook with the templates and SOPs.
- £3-10k Done With You90-day programme: weekly cadence, all the templates, all the playbooks, all the questions answered.
Who's behind this
Cadence Standard is built by John Marston — 20 years across mid-market manufacturing operations, with the workbench scars to back the tools up.
No webinars. No consulting calls (yet). No build-in-public thread. Just the standard, written down, where the operators can see it.