Continuous improvement · Heavy industry
Your CI team is small. The improvement plan isn't.
Goldstone AI gives continuous improvement teams a squad of specialist AI agents for the analysis, drafting and tracking that eat their week, backed by Goldstone Solution's senior consultants for validation, workshops and time on the shop floor. Less spreadsheet work, more improvement projects carried through to the standard.
- TPM / WCM, Lean, TOC, Six Sigma, hoshin kanri
- Every action tied to your improvement plan
- Senior consultants validate the work
See it in action
A crisis at the mill, analyzed before the 10 a.m. board meeting
A 2-minute demo of the CI Data Analyst agent: from downtime and quality files to a dashboard, an action plan and a PDF report, validated by a senior consultant.
- 01Upload the files just as they are
- 02The agent confirms what it read before calculating
- 03Dashboard, root-cause pattern and action plan in minutes
- 04A senior consultant validates and the PDF report is ready
Hypothetical scenario, company and data.
The problem
Improvement work gets buried under paperwork
CI programs rarely stall for lack of method. They stall when the few people who run them spend their days building reports instead of leading improvement.
Small teams, wide scope
One or two coordinators support every pillar, every line and every kaizen event at the plant, and the backlog keeps growing.
Spreadsheet overload
Losses, OEE, action lists and project status live in dozens of spreadsheets that someone has to consolidate by hand every week.
Plans drift from execution
The annual plan says one thing, the daily routine does another. By the time anyone notices, a quarter is gone.
Standards and training lag behind
One-point lessons, SOPs and training material stay outdated because nobody has the hours to rewrite them after each improvement.
The agent squad
One specialist agent per discipline, coordinated around your plan
Each agent is focused on a single method and the deliverables it produces. They share one context (your plant, your data, your plan), so their work fits together instead of piling up.
Orchestrator
Coordinates the squad and checks every analysis, draft and action against your improvement plan, so the work stays aligned with what the plant committed to.
TPM / WCM pillar coach
Guides each pillar through its steps, prepares audit evidence and keeps pillar action plans current.
Lean / TPS
Structures kaizen events, standard work, 5S and problem solving using Toyota Production System practice.
Theory of constraints
Identifies the constraint in the flow and builds the plan to exploit, subordinate and elevate it.
Hoshin kanri
Deploys strategic objectives into X-matrices and catchball, and tracks them through monthly reviews.
Decision analysis
Lays out options, criteria and risks so investment and priority decisions are made on a clear basis.
Six Sigma statistics
Runs capability studies, hypothesis tests, DOE and control charts, and explains the results in plain language.
Value stream mapping
Builds current- and future-state maps from your process data and turns the gaps into a project list.
Dashboards
Consolidates OEE, losses and KPIs from your spreadsheets and systems into views that update themselves.
Executive and frontline communication
Drafts steering-committee decks for leadership and one-point lessons, SOPs and training material for the floor.
Program management
Tracks projects, owners and deadlines across the program and flags what is late before the review meeting.
The hybrid model
AI agents do the groundwork. Senior consultants own the judgment.
Software alone doesn't change how a plant runs. Goldstone AI pairs the agents with Goldstone Solution's consultants, so every output is checked by someone who has run improvement programs on the floor.
AI agents
- Analyze loss, OEE and process data
- Draft reports, A3s, decks and standards
- Track actions, owners and deadlines
- Keep everything tied to the improvement plan
Goldstone senior consultants
- Validate analyses and recommendations
- Facilitate workshops and kaizen events
- Coach pillar leaders and belts
- Are present on site at key moments
Your team
- Sets priorities and makes the decisions
- Runs the improvements on the floor
- Owns the standards and the results
- Spends more time on improvement, less on reporting
Why Goldstone
Built on operational excellence work in heavy industry since 2014
Goldstone AI is the technology arm of Goldstone Solution, a boutique operational excellence consultancy that has run improvement programs on the shop floor of large industrial plants since 2014.
- Goldstone Solution founded, working with large industrial clients ever since
- 2014
- Goldstone Solution founded, working with large industrial clients ever since
- Minimum return committed on the total fees a client invests; programs normally exceed it
- 5:1
- Minimum return committed on the total fees a client invests; programs normally exceed it
- Practice led by a JIPM-certified TPM Specialist with more than 25 years in industrial operations
- JIPM
- Practice led by a JIPM-certified TPM Specialist with more than 25 years in industrial operations
- Offices in São Paulo, Curitiba and Miami
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- Offices in São Paulo, Curitiba and Miami
Consultants who execute on the shop floor, with applied AI and virtual reality training already part of how Goldstone works with its clients.
See Goldstone Solution cases(opens in a new tab)Who it's for
Built for the people who run improvement, and the people accountable for it
Day-to-day users
- CI coordinators and analysts
- TPM / WCM pillar leaders
- Lean and Six Sigma belts
- Production and maintenance supervisors
- Engineering teams running improvement projects
Sponsors
- Plant managers and plant directors
- Operational excellence and CI directors
- VPs of Operations and COOs
Core industries
- Pulp and paper
- Mining
- Metals and steel
- Packaging
- Chemicals
- Cement
Also serving
- Automotive and auto parts
- Food and beverage
- Pharma
- Consumer goods
- Sugar and ethanol
Served in English, Portuguese and Spanish across Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina.
Getting started
Start small, prove it at one plant, then expand
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Free Rapid Diagnostic
Free of charge, after an online conversation with one of our consultants. In 6 working days, with data collection, interviews and a field survey, you get a loss map, the maturity of your CI program and the priorities, presented to your leadership.
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Pilot program at one plant
A fixed-scope hybrid program, for example an autonomous maintenance journey or a throughput sprint, with defined deliverables and duration.
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Subscription keeps the gains
The agent squad stays in place to sustain standards, dashboards and plan tracking after the pilot ends.
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Roll out to more plants
Extend what worked to other sites, with agents trained on your own standards and methods.
Free Rapid Diagnostic
Talk to us about your improvement program
The Rapid Diagnostic is free of charge. Tell us a little about your plant and your CI program, and a Goldstone consultant will reply by email to schedule the online conversation.