Small improvements, compounding
A 2% improvement in a month is easy to shrug at. Nobody calls a meeting about 2%. But say Stella adds 2% a month, on top of last month's gains. Compounding does the rest: the same work costs about 21% less after a year. After three years, roughly half.
Put in your own numbers: how many processes, how often they run, what one run costs. The calculator assumes a modest 2% improvement a month - argue with it. Your free Cost X-Ray replaces that assumption with your real numbers.
What compounding improvement adds up to
saved in year 1
saved over 3 years
Assumes improvements compound at 2% per month, which is deliberately conservative.
What happens to gains nobody maintains?
Every improvement program has a graveyard. A team fixes a process, everyone celebrates, and a year later it runs the way it did before. Manual.to, which builds work-instruction software, puts a number on it: 70% of kaizen performance improvements decline within 12 months. (Kaizen is the improvement method factories have run on for decades.)
The pattern behind the number is familiar. The better way lives in a few heads. People change shifts, move on, forget. The written version never catches up, so the old way creeps back in without anyone deciding anything.
That's the problem Stella was built against. An improvement lands inside the live process, and the next launch uses it automatically, because the process and its instructions are the same thing. Every version is saved forever, so a gain can be measured, audited, even rolled back. What it can't do is quietly evaporate.
Start with your number
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