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Shadow boards

Three board types, made to your specification

Everything we make starts with your tools, your space and your standard. Choose a type to see what it is, who it suits and how it can be configured.

Front view of a Safran tool shadow board holding spanners, screwdrivers, pliers and sockets

01

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.

  • 5S Sort and Set in Order: one fixed home for every active tool
  • Multi-shift and multilingual teams — the silhouette reads without words
  • Line-side tooling for repetitive assembly tasks
  • Changeover kits for SMED programmes
About tool boards
Production hall with purple cleaning stations at the end of each assembly cell

02

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.

  • End-of-shift clean-down stations
  • Zone-specific hygiene control
  • Spill response points
  • Washroom and welfare area stations
About cleaning stations
Short interval control board with hourly grid and KPI panels

03

Visual 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.

  • SQCDP and KPI boards — review Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and People with letter calendars and an action log
  • Short interval control (SIC) — compare hourly plan with actual output, record downtime reasons and identify escalations
  • 5 Whys and fishbone boards — work through root causes using an Ishikawa diagram, 5 Whys ladder and countermeasure log
  • Tier 1, 2 and 3 meetings and shift handovers — use consistent headings for daily performance and outstanding actions
About visual management

Project builder

Design your own board.

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.

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Specification

How our boards are built

Mounting methods

  1. Direct wall-mounted

    Flush-fixed into masonry or cladding with matching screw caps.

  2. Stand-off wall-mounted

    25mm 304 stainless stand-offs for clearance over pipework, cabling or washdown.

  3. Magnetic

    Neodymium rear pads for steel columns, racking or machine casings. No drilling.

  4. Freestanding static

    Stainless or box-section frame, single or double-sided, with bolt-down baseplates.

  5. Freestanding mobile

    Heavy-duty frame with push handles and four braked industrial swivel castors.

Tool retention

  1. 304 stainless brackets

    Laser-cut, TIG-welded, deburred and radiused.

  2. Aluminium rail

    Extruded rail with nylon or stainless snap-in hooks, repositionable as tools change.

  3. Custom built brackets

    Custom built to suit bespoke tools, precision and calibrated instruments.

  4. Through-board hooks

    No bolts or rear fixings: each hook passes through the board and rests on a lip that carries the weight, so nothing can work loose or go missing. Easy to clean for hygienic design and clean rooms.

  5. Lockable enclosures

    Padlock hasps with polycarbonate or stainless mesh doors.

Board substrates

  1. Aluminium composite

    3mm rigid panel. Moisture-proof, will not rot, chemical-resistant.

  2. Steel-faced magnetic composite

    3mm composite with a ferromagnetic skin for dry-wipe magnetic boards.

  3. Solid 304 stainless steel

    For heavy washdown and chemical environments.

  4. Flexible magnetic vinyl

    0.85mm sheet that applies tool-free to plant steelwork.

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