The Lean Operating Desk
Every lean engineering tool your team needs — time study, Yamazumi, line balancing, SMED, standard work and ergonomics — in one offline workspace. One license, not ten modules.
What is a Lean Operating Desk?
Most lean work lives scattered across stopwatch, spreadsheets, video folders and separate point tools. A Lean Operating Desk brings measuring, balancing, standardising and improving work into one connected place — where a change in a time study flows through to the Yamazumi chart, the standard work sheet and the balancing scenario. Yamazo Studio is that desk, and it runs entirely on your own machine.
One desk, not ten modules
Traditional lean software sells each capability as a separate, separately-licensed module — buy the method tool, then the balancing tool, then the ergonomics tool. Yamazo Studio puts the full breadth — time study, Yamazumi, line balancing, SMED, SOT/WCS, ergonomics, A3 and more — in a single Studio license, with transparent annual or perpetual pricing.
Five things the desk does
Measure work
Frame-accurate video time study, SOT analysis, performance rating, and manual/machine/walk/wait breakdown.
Balance lines
Yamazumi charts, line-balancing scenarios, workforce planning and bottleneck detection against takt.
Standardise work
Standard Work Combination Sheets (SWCS/IKF), SOT outputs and a reusable work-element library.
Improve processes
SMED changeover analysis, VSM (beta), A3 kaizen and ergonomic assessment (WERA, Temotoka).
Protect factory data
Offline by design, local storage and a full audit trail today. Air-gapped team collaboration via Opsida Airlock is on the roadmap.
Offline by design
Production videos and analysis stay on your computer — no cloud upload, no IT exception ticket. That makes the desk a fit for automotive, aerospace, defence and any plant where production data cannot leave the premises.
What it replaces
Stopwatch and clipboard, Excel Yamazumi rebuilt for every meeting, scattered video folders, duplicated SOT/WCS documents and presentation-only kaizen files — consolidated into one reviewable, offline workflow.
Try it free, starting with the calculators
The same formulas behind the desk are available as free online calculators — takt, OEE, cycle time, flow and more. Use them now, then bring the full workflow in-house.
Open the free calculatorsSee the whole desk on your own video
Yamazo Studio turns shop-floor video into standard work, line balance and improvement evidence — one offline Lean Operating Desk.
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