BoardSnap is an iOS app that captures the whiteboard output of manufacturing operations — daily production meetings, quality reviews, lean improvement sessions — and turns it into structured action plans your floor team can execute before the shift starts.
Manufacturing operations run on visual management. Daily tier meetings, production status boards, quality review sessions, A3 problem-solving sessions — all use whiteboards as the primary tool for aligning the team and driving action. The whiteboard tells the story of the shift, the day, the week. And then it gets erased for the next session.
BoardSnap gives manufacturing teams a systematic way to capture and document that visual management content. Snap the daily production board, the quality defect analysis, the 5S audit results. BoardSnap AI reads the structured content — metrics, action items, owner assignments, status indicators — and returns a written summary your shift supervisors and plant managers can use without manual transcription.
The offline queue is built for shop floors: manufacturing facilities have notoriously poor cellular coverage in production areas. BoardSnap captures on-device and syncs when you move to an area with connectivity.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 daily meetings drive production alignment through a board: safety, quality, delivery, cost metrics and their owners and actions. Snap the board after each tier. The structured summary is the tier meeting record — no manual logbook entry required.
Work through a quality problem or production issue using the A3 structure on the board: problem statement, current condition, root cause, countermeasures, implementation plan. Snap at each step. Projects document the full A3 lifecycle — from initial problem definition to countermeasure verification.
Map the week's production schedule on the board: orders, line assignments, material availability, maintenance windows. Snap it. The summary gives production planning and the floor team their aligned schedule before the shift starts.
Five-day kaizen events produce enormous whiteboard output: current-state and future-state maps, waste analysis, improvement ideas, implementation plans. Snap after each kaizen session. Projects build the documented improvement record your lean team uses to track progress.
Map the nonconforming material review on the board: nature of the defect, scope, disposition decision, corrective action assignment. Snap it. The structured summary becomes the NCR meeting record — and drives the corrective action follow-up.
Yes. Offline queue captures the board on-device and syncs when you return to WiFi or a coverage area. Shop floors and production areas with poor cellular coverage aren't a barrier — the board is captured regardless of connectivity.
Yes. Lean metrics boards with SQDC structure, trend indicators, and action item columns read well. BoardSnap AI extracts the metrics, status indicators, and action assignments in structured prose — your tier meeting record without the manual transcription.
Projects. Each production line or plant gets its own project. Board history for Line 1 doesn't mix with Line 2. Plant A's continuous improvement work stays separate from Plant B's.
BoardSnap summaries are useful starting points for quality system records — meeting minutes, improvement event summaries, NCR records. They don't replace your QMS documentation process or auditor review. Use them to speed up the documentation step, not bypass it.
Yes. Three taps to snap. Ten seconds to summarize. The workflow is designed to add zero friction — supervisors snap the tier board at the end of the meeting and the summary is ready before they reach their desk.
Snap a board. Get a clean summary and action plan tied to your team.