Tool shadow boards
A shadow board designed and labelled to your exact tool set, so a missing item is obvious at a glance and every tool has a fixed home.
DetailsAutomotive manufacturing
Tool control and 5S for takt-driven production
Automotive plants and tier suppliers run to the minute. A missing tool at a station is lost output, and a cluttered cell fails the next audit. We make boards that put the right tools and cleaning equipment at the point of use, sized to the cell and labelled to your standard.
What we see on site
Common problems in automotive manufacturing
Problem 01
Line-side tool loss
Shared tools drift between stations and shifts, and the search for them shows up as micro-stops.
Problem 02
Audit findings
Customer and internal 5S audits keep flagging the same unlabelled, unhomed items.
Problem 03
Changeover time
Changeover kits are incomplete when the changeover starts, adding minutes to every SMED cycle.
Problem 04
Inconsistent standards across cells
Each team improvises its own board, so the visual standard varies from one end of the line to the other.
What we make for this sector
Relevant board types
Cleaning stations
A fixed home for brushes, squeegees, mops and consumables, colour-coded to zone so cross-contamination and lost equipment stop being a daily problem.
DetailsVisual management boards
Custom-printed visual management boards for daily performance meetings, KPI tracking and problem solving. Bring targets, actual results and actions together in a fixed layout designed around your team's routine.
DetailsStandards
Compliance and standards notes
How our boards support the standards this sector works to. We are not a certification body; your auditor has the final say.
- IATF 16949
- Boards support workplace organisation and controlled tooling requirements within your QMS.
- Customer-specific 5S standards
- Layouts and colour codes matched to OEM visual standards where you supply them.
Trusted by teams at
Examples
Automotive boards we have made
Cleaning station, Aston Martin 
High-level conveyor tooling, Jaguar Land Rover Hybrid & EV safety kit board, Toyota
Questions
Frequently asked
- Can boards match our OEM customer's colour standard?
- Yes. Send us the standard and we design to it. Where no standard exists we propose one and document it.
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Plan a board for your automotive site.
Pick your tools, choose colours and fixing, and see an indicative board-only price as you go. Save it and we'll review it before sending your official quote.
Enquire
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- — Design proof before anything is made