Small ideas, counted and compounded

The same scrap problem gets solved five times at five sites, five different ways. Prism clusters incoming ideas across plants and surfaces the pattern. One root cause, fixed once, rolled out everywhere. The rollout is where the compounding happens. 

An idea that sits unanswered for three months ends more than one submission. Everyone within earshot stops too. Score every idea on impact, effort, and fit. Strong ones get the green light, the rest get a reason. A no with an explanation keeps ideas coming. Silence ends them.

A fix that works on one line and never leaves it is a lost multiple. Track every accepted idea to done, then to rollout across lines and sites. Owners, dates, live status. The submitter sees their idea running in another plant. 

Scrap down, changeover minutes saved, energy per unit cut. Attach the number to every implemented idea and sum it by site and year. At the program review, the total defends the budget. Engagement scores do not.