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Welcome to Catena 

The Catena Process Improvement Software is an integrate part of the Catena improvement system.  It is designed to help organizations manage, analyze, improve, and sustain process improvement projects using lean principles.

From Catena's Project Panel you can:

·    Manage project time-lines
·    Customize and print work room wall headers to visually manage and communicate project status and activities
·    Add, edit and report on project tasks and improvement activities
·    Create high level value stream maps to help understand process relationships and opportunities
·    Uncover waste and identify improvement ideas through video analysis of product/service process flows and individual work activities
·    Generate point-to-point diagrams of product/service flows and staff walk patterns
·    Develop standard work processes from baseline processes and activities
·    Balance the distribution of work between multiple staff members
·    Determine staffing requirements based on work load demands
·    Create kanban material replenishment labels and cards
·    Track 5S "red tag" activities
·    Identify additional improvement opportunities of proposed standard work processes through the use of 10-cycle analysis
·    Track and report top down-time issues
·    Monitor performance measures such as day by the hour, month by the day, Quality, and efficiency
·    Summarize project improvements
·    Use a 20 point Audit Score Card to audit project results over three phases
·    Evaluate and track staff skill levels
·    Play back standard work videos

In addition to the help documentation distributed with the application, Catena offers a wide variety of on-line help, tutorial files, and other documentation to provide you with the most up-to-date information.  To use this system, please visit:

http://www.opexsg.com/support