Performance
by Design™
COPEX establishes the international management standards, verifiable professional credentials, and digital architecture that make operational excellence inevitable.
For Professionals
Advance your career with verifiable credentials. Build a tamper-proof digital Passport documenting defended projects, exam competencies, and continuing development.
For Consultants
Equip your practice with standard IP, diagnostic toolkits, and white-label MyGemba workspaces. Stop dropping off static slides; deliver living management systems.
For Enterprises
Assess your organizational maturity against the COPEX-OEMS:2026 Standard. Standardize shift-by-shift governance and eliminate operational variance across facilities.
“To help organizations design the systems that make excellence inevitable.”
“A world where organizations no longer depend on chance, heroics, or constant firefighting to perform.”
The COPEX Standard (OEMS:2026)
The auditable architecture defining what an Operational Excellence Management System requires to sustain flow, prevent defect recurrence, and govern shift velocity.
The Operating Architecture (8 Pillars) governs how plants run daily; OEMS:2026 (6 Clauses) is the normative standard used to audit and certify compliance.
Explore 8 Operating Pillars →Policy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri)
Strategic Line-of-Sight
- ·Catchball negotiation between executive leadership and plant operations
- ·Cascade of 3-5 breakthrough objectives into shift-level targets
- ·Quarterly governance cadences and root-cause countermeasure reviews
Verify that frontline operators articulate how daily work impacts annual targets.
Value Stream Flow & Pacing
Material & Information Velocity
- ·Continuous flow modeling with takt time customer demand synchronization
- ·Calculated buffer and WIP sizing preventing uncoupled line accumulation
- ·Dedicated pacemakers establishing hourly pull across multi-stage cells
Evidence of dynamic queue controls and live bottleneck monitoring.
Frontline Cadence & Hour Boards
Daily Supervisory Discipline
- ·Digital or physical Day Performance Boards reviewed every 60 minutes
- ·Daily 15-minute supervisory Toyota Kata coaching and obstacle tracking
- ·Rapid abnormality containment protocols triggered upon yield or pace loss
Log of daily countermeasure experiments executed by frontline teams.
Workplace Stability & 5S Standard
Operational Foundation
- ·Documented Standard Work Combination sheets (Operator vs. Machine)
- ·Visual workplace 5S audits tied to shift handovers rather than inspections
- ·Autonomous maintenance checkpoints integrated into operator routines
Absence of cosmetic 5S; adherence to documented cycle times.
Variance Elimination (DMAIC)
Statistical Defect Reduction
- ·Measurement System Analysis (Variable Gage R&R and Attribute Agreement)
- ·Distribution normality and capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Ppk) validation
- ·Root-cause countermeasure discipline (zero unverified intuition fixes)
Rigorous statistical proof of defect elimination and active control plans.
Systemic Governance & Opportunity Hopper
Ecosystem Sustainability
- ·Centralized Opportunity Hopper evaluating ideas by impact versus effort
- ·Structured 5-day Kaizen Event charters with executive sponsor accountability
- ·Digital synchronization of plant performance data into executive review
Velocity of Gemba suggestions transitioning into verified countermeasures.
Policy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri)
- ✓Catchball negotiation between executive leadership and plant operations
- ✓Cascade of 3-5 breakthrough objectives into shift-level targets
- ✓Quarterly governance cadences and root-cause countermeasure reviews
Verify that frontline operators articulate how daily work impacts annual targets.
The COPEX Maturity Index (OMI)
A 5-level maturity index measuring how effectively continuous improvement is codified into daily operating cadences.
Ad Hoc
Heroics, tribal knowledge, uncoordinated firefighting.
Standardized
Baseline 5S, documented procedures, localized departmental metrics.
Connected
Value streams mapped, hourly hour boards, cross-functional flow.
Governed
Live digital OEE, daily Toyota Kata coaching, DMAIC variance control.
Benchmark
Autonomous adaptation, statistical capability, institutional alignment.
How Organizations Transform With COPEX
Objective 15-question evaluation isolating vulnerability points and OMI baseline scoring.
STAGE 0202 / TRANSFORMShopfloor re-engineering of value stream flow, standard work combinations, and DMS standup tiers.
STAGE 0303 / DEVELOPDaily supervisory Toyota Kata coaching routines and DMAIC statistical defect control mastery.
STAGE 0404 / MANAGELiving digital shopfloor execution: shift hour boards, mathematical OEE, and downtime Pareto.
Fragmented & Reactive
- ✕Firefighting disguised as operational leadership
- ✕Isolated Kaizen events that decay within 60 days
- ✕5S treated as cosmetic housekeeping before executive visits
- ✕Shift performance buried in disconnected spreadsheets
Disciplined & Governed
- ✓Hoshin strategic line-of-sight from boardroom to line
- ✓Daily 15-minute supervisory Toyota Kata coaching cadences
- ✓Six Sigma statistical control preventing defect recurrence
- ✓Living MyGemba digital governance across the plant
Institutional Leadership
Tom Dunn
Senior Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt • Architect of MyGemba
Tom spent over four decades directing manufacturing plants and corporate continuous improvement turnarounds. He built the entire software architecture of MyGemba to codify 45 years of practical shopfloor management into software, ensuring operations sustain standard work without relying on temporary heroics.
“You cannot paste Lean tools over a broken management structure. Fix the operating system first.”
Victor Pazmiño
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt • Operational Systems Practitioner
Working alongside Tom Dunn for 11 years, Victor specializes in deploying operating cadences, frontline problem-solving systems, and digital execution tools on the plant floor that bridge shopfloor reality to executive decision-makers.
“Operational excellence is not an event—it is a daily operating cadence. We engineer systems that eliminate variance at the Gemba.”
Performance Should Not
Depend on Heroics.
A designed operating system makes performance visible, repeatable, and continuously improvable. Select your operational starting point:
Evaluate your plant against the 5 architectural vectors of operational maturity in 15 questions.
Inspect the comprehensive technical specification across all 8 Pillars of the Operating System.
Schedule a private 30-minute architectural walkthrough with our Senior Practitioners.
Request An Institutional Briefing
A focused conversation about your organization's operating system, current constraints, and where COPEX may fit.
Schedule Private Institutional Session
Selected Track: Enterprise OEMS Assessment