Operating Reality Assessment™ Rapid Diagnostic
Most plants can feel the loss and cannot name it. The leadership team disagrees about the cause, the improvement list is longer than anyone can deliver, and a full assessment is a large decision to take on opinion. The Rapid Diagnostic replaces opinion with a written picture of how your plant really runs.
The standard behind every finding
Every plant has two versions of itself: how it is meant to run, and how it runs. The value your leadership cannot find sits in the gap between them. The Operating Reality Assessment measures that gap on a written scale, with the evidence behind every score named, so the answer is a fact and not an opinion.
The Problem
Choose the one that is closest. Each is a different symptom of the same cause: the gap between how the plant is meant to run and how it runs.
The Value of 1%
Comparison with similar plants shows where you sit. It does not show how your own plant runs. The Rapid Diagnostic scores how your plant runs against a written best in class standard and shows where the gaps are, lowest score first. This calculator puts a price on 1% of your output, so you can read any gain against your own figures.
Comparison with similar plants
Your rank among similar plants. It shows your position. It does not show how your plant runs, or which practices are holding it back. The Rapid Diagnostic does not rank plants against each other.
The Sandringham way
Your score against a written standard. It shows how your plant runs. It names the evidence behind each score and lists the gaps, lowest first. It answers a different question: what to fix first.
1 Choose your sector. The labels, the value basis and the programs below follow it.
The value of 1%
Where the gap sits Counted once
Each is part of the loss and is never valued a second time.
Productive time Full Assessment
The diagnostic scores it as a finding. A Full Assessment values it from your own records.
The question is not whether to look. It is how long you can afford not to.
Value of 1% since you reached this panel: US$ 0
These are the arithmetic of your own figures, not our estimate of what you will gain. The Rapid Diagnostic establishes where the loss sits, scored 0 to 5, and which gaps stand between you and the best in class standard.
Where it is lost, and what answers it
Programs come from our theme catalogue. The Rapid Diagnostic shows which areas of your plant score lowest, and which of these programs answer them. The Full Assessment values each one from your own records, so this page gives them no figure.
How the number connects
The calculator sizes the prize from your own figures: output, value of a unit, operating days. It is a measure, not a forecast.
This pageFinds where the loss sits. Every element scored 0 to 5, your results read against the best in class standard, red line stated plainly. It carries no value per gap.
Six weeks, fixed pricePuts a value on every recommendation, with the source of every figure, and ranks them on a 3, 6 and 12 month roadmap.
Fieldwork credited within three monthsWhat Visitors Ask Next
Speed
Three weeks of preparation, five days on site, two weeks to the written report. Choose any step, or play the whole journey.
Durations are for a scope of up to eight process units. A larger site takes a Full Assessment, and the proposal states the weeks for yours.
Both are scored on the same Operating Reality Assessment, so nothing from the diagnostic is done twice.
The Operating Reality Assessment
Every area in scope is scored 0 to 5 against written level descriptors, and every score names the evidence it rests on: a document, a record, a sample test, system data, an observation or an interview. The standard is written down, so the same assessment a year later measures movement, not a change of opinion.
Named element by element, so the team sees its strengths before its gaps.
A gap list, lowest score first, each gap naming the evidence behind it. Any red line finding stated without qualification.
A written case for the full assessment: what it would establish that this cannot, and what that is worth deciding.
What We Need
Tick what you already hold. Whatever is missing is agreed in the proposal with dates. No interviewee is ever asked to prepare or bring anything.
1 Is a turnaround on your horizon?
2 Tap what you already have. These three start the clock.
3 These can follow in agreed parts.
A readiness review of your next turnaround at the review point it has reached, from the records alone. It is scored 0 to 5 against written tests across ten areas: safety and quality, materials, scope, contracts, engineering, schedule, management, operations, logistics and controls. Any red line test is stated plainly, and the review points follow the milestones for your turnaround's complexity.
You send what exists today: charter, scope and work list, schedule, materials, contracts, safety plans, budget and review records. Where something does not exist yet, say so and give the date it is due.
It tells you how ready the turnaround is and what to fix while there is still time. It does not value savings or re-plan your scope. A full assessment does that.
Why This Is Easy to Say Yes To
Signature to report in forty-two days. Three weeks from the day we arrive.
No day rates and no surprises. The fee is set before any work starts.
Commission the Full Assessment within three months and the Rapid Diagnostic fieldwork comes off its price.
Every score against written descriptors, with the evidence named.
More than twenty-five of them doing exactly this work. You deal with the person who does it.
Every figure names its source, so what reaches your leadership is fact, not opinion.
Five days on site. No interviewee is asked to prepare or bring anything.
The Offer
Tell us your region and what you are worried about. We come back with a scoping call, then a fixed-price proposal with the week-by-week dates for your site.
Questions
It scores your plant against a written standard. It does not rank you against other sites, so it works alongside any peer comparison you already have.
Six weeks from signature, three of them from the day we arrive: three weeks of preparation, five days on site, two weeks to the report. Four weeks of preparation where access to your data is given late. That timetable covers up to eight process units, chosen from your lists and counts. A larger site takes a Full Assessment.
It tells you where you are losing ground and by how much. It does not value each gap or sequence the work, because that needs the evidence a Full Assessment collects. The report says exactly what a full assessment would establish.
You decide. If you commission the Full Assessment within three months, the Rapid Diagnostic fieldwork comes off its price, so nothing you have paid for is done twice.
The safety overlay is read on every engagement and any red line finding is reported in full. A present danger is notified the day it is found, outside the report.