The right communication, to the right place
Everything your floor is telling you,
in one place.
Andon Tool replaces radios, whiteboards, and random documents with real-time requests, live schedule boards, daily KPI boards, and downtime tracking.
Requests that can’t get lost
One tap from the floor. Instantly on the board. Claimed by a name, not a guess. Response and completion times captured automatically — counting only operational time, not breaks.
Scheduling that runs itself
Set a rotation once; the board advances it nightly. Floaters, swaps, and coverage handled in a couple of clicks. Eagle View shows the whole plant on one screen.
KPI boards your floor actually sees
Daily green/yellow/red against your own criteria. Missed days show gray — visible accountability. Put it on a TV with a wall-calendar view, a rotating slideshow, or a split-screen dashboard.
Downtime you can actually act on
Anyone on the floor logs a stoppage in about four taps — no training required. Reasons come pre-tagged to the eight wastes, so the data categorizes itself. Supervisors see the top losses ranked by time lost, so improvement starts with facts instead of opinions.
Every minute a problem stays invisible costs you production.
An operator needs help — and radios someone who’s already busy.
A supervisor finds out about a stoppage twenty minutes late.
Nobody can say how long it actually took to fix. Again.
Andon Tool makes every request visible, owned, and timed.
Two extras, if you want them.
Not part of the plans above. Both are optional, available on any plan, and priced separately — see pricing.
Skill Matrix
Track which operators are certified on which skills, at which level. See where coverage is thin before it costs you a shift, and print a one-page review sheet for each employee.
C.I.B. — Continuous Improvement Bot
Ask most AI assistants why a machine keeps going down and they ask you to describe your plant. C.I.B. already knows it — your downtime, your KPIs, your skill coverage. It runs 5 Whys, fishbone, PDCA, and A3 one question at a time, the way a CI coordinator would. Hand it the meeting notes you typed or dictated yourself and it turns them into decisions and action items with an owner and a date — it never attends or records a meeting.
Both are included free during the 30-day trial.
Built by someone who’s had this problem.
I spent years watching production stall while someone hunted down a supervisor, then tracked the same problems on whiteboards that nobody updated. Andon Tool is the system I wanted on my own floor — priced so a plant that can’t justify a six-figure MES can actually use it.
Get the one-page overview
The full picture in one page — features, pricing, and what setup looks like.
Still running the floor on spreadsheets and whiteboards?
Most plants don’t have a data problem. They have a delayed-truth problem — the line stops at 9, and it reaches the office after lunch. Andon Tool puts requests, schedules, KPIs, and downtime in one place, on screens your team already looks at, so you can see what’s happening right now and take action.
Direct access to the person who built it.
Andon Tool is new, and I'd rather earn customers than fake them. Work directly with me, not a support queue — and have real influence over what gets built next.
— I built this because I needed it. Not a software company chasing a market.
No hardware to install. Works on the phones and tablets you already have.
Set up in days, not a six-month implementation.
30-day access period before subscription billing starts.
No contracts. Cancel anytime.