Pick the one that costs you the most. It builds it now.
The same week, with and without it.
| When | The tool you have | Gobuso |
|---|---|---|
| Four years of shift logs in spreadsheets | Retype 80 operators before day one | Upload it as-is, review what it read |
| Each line stops for different reasons | One list of reasons for all 3 lines | Describe each one, read it back, change it |
| Monday asks what last month actually cost | Go and add up the shift sheets | Open the line, read its history |
What manufacturing owners ask before they start.
Our operators are not office people.
They do not have to be. The operator sees four fields on a phone at the machine and a box for the shift lead to sign. Everything long and awkward stays in the engineering form, which she never opens.
Can it read the stops off the line instead?
Not on day one. What a line controller gives you is a stop and a duration, and the thing you are missing is the reason, which only the person standing there has. The minutes get better when the controller is wired in later; the reason has to be typed either way.
We already have four years of data.
That is the starting point, not the obstacle. Import the spreadsheets you keep as they are: each one opens with every doubtful cell marked, and nothing is added until you have seen it.
What if the AI gets it wrong?
It will, sometimes. That is why nothing is saved until you have read it and said yes. Checking its work is a step in the product, not an afterthought.