A strip of brown paper pinned along a grey office wall, rows of blank lime, cream and amber sticky notes joined by pencil arrows, most of it softly out of focus.

What the walk covers

Your floor walk

Tick the areas to walk, name the lines to follow, choose up to three questions and what you want to keep afterwards. Beside the form, the morning lays itself out from the start of your shift.

The scope is kept with the request: the morning, the reference and the status stay as they are. It can be changed until the day before the morning, and it goes when the request goes.

Go to the choices Back to the request

Areas, lines, questions, outputs

Choose, and watch the morning take shape

No floor walk is open on this browser. The scope belongs to a booked walk, so the form appears here once the walk is opened with its reference and email address. Below is what it will offer.

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The areas you can choose

Goods in
Put-away and replenishment
Picking
Packing and checking
Despatch and loading
Returns
Production or assembly line
Workshop benches and kitting
Order entry and the office side

What you can keep

Walk notes. The route as walked, traced on your floor plan; each place work waited, and for how long; the questions you chose, answered as far as one morning can.
Takt sheet. The beat of one shift (its working time divided by the units it must make), each station in the chosen areas timed over at least ten cycles, and the fewest people each station needs to keep that beat. Worked the same way as the takt calculator on this site.
Setting-out plan. For a move into a new unit, a new layout or a new shift: the order things go in from the empty space to the first shift, with walkways, bays and lanes drawn from the flow walked on the morning.

How the times are set

The morning starts at the start of your shift and runs up to 4 hours on the floor.
Your site induction comes first, then 15 minutes with your host before anyone walks.
Each area takes 35 minutes to walk, watch and count; areas are walked in the order work flows, whatever order they were ticked in.
Each line or product family followed end to end takes 20 minutes.
A takt sheet adds 20 minutes in each area, to time its stations over at least ten cycles.
A setting-out plan adds 30 minutes for the drawing and the date of the move.
The last 20 minutes are with your host: what we saw, what you keep, and when.
Up to 3 questions, counting your own; up to 5 lines.
What you keep is sent within 5 working days of the morning.

These are our own working conventions, not a standard anyone else sets: they are how long these steps take us on an ordinary floor. If your floor needs longer, we say so when we confirm.