Higher performance, built into every working day
Every factory has untapped potential. Realising it takes clear priorities, capable people and operating practices that consistently translate ambition into action.
MODE brings these elements together in a manufacturing operating system tailored to your business. It connects long-term improvement with the daily routines that make change happen and sustain it.
Manufacturing Optimisation identifies where value exists and builds the roadmap to capture it. Daily Execution equips your teams with the skills, standards and tools to deliver that value on the factory floor, every day.
Supported by Argon & Co’s manufacturing experts, MODE helps your people improve performance today while building the capability to keep improving tomorrow. And we will stand behind the MODE system and share the project risk with you.
Why does the productivity gap persist?
Manufacturers face pressure to increase output and control costs while maintaining quality and developing their workforce. Yet even after investment in continuous improvement and digital systems, performance can fall short of expectations.
Common challenges include:
- Improvement programmes deliver early gains that fade over time.
- Teams spend too much time firefighting recurring production and equipment problems.
- Dashboards report yesterday’s losses without helping people prevent tomorrow’s issues
- Knowledge and capability leave the business when experienced employees move on
- Standards and ways of working vary between shifts, lines and sites.
- Digital and AI investments struggle to translate into measurable operational value and wide spread adoption
The first step is understanding where performance is being lost and what prevents your teams from improving it. We assess your operations, existing capabilities and technology, then connect the opportunities to your business priorities and financial outcomes.
How we can help
One operating system, tailored to your factory
MODE combines operational improvement, team development and digital enablement in the way your factory runs every day. We build on what already works, adapting the deployment to your starting point and priorities.
Increase productivity and equipment reliability
Identify and address the losses limiting output. MODE helps teams reduce downtime, improve quality, strengthen maintenance and establish stable operating conditions. The result is greater productive capacity from your people and assets.
Make daily execution more effective
Connect business objectives to clear responsibilities at every level. Structured shift handovers, daily performance meetings, standard work and problem-solving routines help teams identify issues early and follow actions through to resolution.
AI enabled – Leading indicators show whether the activities that protect performance are happening, enabling teams to act before losses accumulate.
Build capability that stays in the business
Equip operators, maintenance teams and leaders with practical skills they can apply immediately. MODE combines structured learning with coaching on the factory floor, supported by clear standards and verified qualifications.
As capability develops, teams take greater ownership of equipment and performance, while leaders spend more time coaching and improving operations.
Put digital technology and AI to work
MODE connects operating practices with the technology that helps people execute them. Our integration with Redzone brings MODE learning content and leading indicators into frontline workflows across productivity, compliance, reliability and learning.
Live production visibility, digital checks, action tracking and accessible training help teams respond faster and work more consistently. Advanced analytics and AI can extend these capabilities, with applications selected around operational needs and measurable value.
Sustain improvements and demonstrate the return
MODE links operational measures to financial outcomes so teams can see how improvements contribute to business performance. Regular capability assessments and benefit reviews help identify drift, reinforce standards and guide the next stage of improvement.
Our deployment approach targets a minimum 2:1 return on investment within 12 months, with the opportunity and measures established through your site-specific business case.
Our approach
From opportunity to sustained performance
1. Assess and design
We spend time with your teams and on the factory floor to understand current performance, capabilities and constraints. We establish a baseline, identify priority losses and connect operational improvements to financial value. Together, we define the business case and a tailored deployment roadmap.
2. Align and prepare
We align leaders around the objectives, responsibilities and behaviours needed to deliver change. We select the initial production line or area, prepare the team and configure the supporting digital tools. Clear governance and agreed success measures keep the deployment focused.
3. Deploy and build capability
Our manufacturing experts work alongside your people using a learn–do–coach approach. We introduce daily operating routines, equipment care standards and structured problem solving, with digital workflows supporting execution. Teams apply new skills directly to the losses that matter most.
4. Sustain and scale
We validate benefits and assess how consistently teams apply the new ways of working. We develop internal coaches, embed learning into onboarding and extend successful practices across further lines and sites. Ongoing reviews help protect gains and identify the next opportunities.
