Complete the Readiness Survey
Answer questions about your current operating model, Lean foundation, digital capabilities, organizational readiness, measurement practices, and evolution planning.
Industry 4.0 Readiness & Implementation Support
Know where you are. Define where you can go. Build the plan to get there.
Take the free TSRB Industry 4.0 Readiness Survey to evaluate your organization's current capabilities across people, process, performance, Lean practices, digital transformation, and implementation planning.
Free readiness assessment
Results emailed to you
Complimentary expert review
A practical starting point
From assessment to actionable next steps
The readiness survey is designed to help your leadership team begin with a shared view of the present state before deciding where to invest effort, technology, and capital.
Receive Your Results
After completion, your survey results will be emailed to you so your team can review the assessment and identify the areas that deserve deeper discussion.
Meet with TSRB Experts
Schedule a complimentary online meeting to review your responses, discuss the assessment, and explore practical priorities for your Industry 4.0 journey.
Expert-guided discussion
Turn survey results into a focused management conversation.
Lean experience. Digital transformation experience. Practical manufacturing perspective.
Complimentary post-survey meeting
Understand what your survey results mean for your organization
This online meeting gives your team direct access to Industry 4.0 professionals with hands-on experience in both Lean and digital transformation.
We use your survey results and the discussion with your team to explain the assessment in greater detail, clarify the operating realities behind the scores, and suggest next steps appropriate to your current level of readiness.
We also explain TSRB's multi-phase implementation support and how a tailored Evolution Plan can coordinate the thought-ware, software, hardware, education, and organizational changes required for a successful Industry 4.0 journey.
- Review the strongest and weakest readiness areas
- Discuss operational priorities and business constraints
- Identify practical next steps rather than isolated technology purchases
- Determine whether an audit, research visit, or full Evolution Plan is appropriate
Who is TSRB?
Industry professionals focused on sustainable operating improvement
TSRB & Associates brings together experienced industry professionals who have helped organizations develop, implement, and strengthen continuous improvement capabilities.
Our work connects business strategy, operating processes, Lean principles, organizational readiness, performance measurement, digital transformation, and technology planning. The objective is not simply to install new tools. It is to create an integrated Evolution Plan that improves how the business operates and how the organization sustains progress.
We provide a complete set of support services and products for organizations beginning, advancing, or validating their Industry 4.0 journey.
Visit the TSRB WebsiteReadiness Assessment
Evaluate people, process, technology, and planning maturity.
Evaluate people, process, technology, and planning maturity.
Industry 4.0 Audit
Review existing plans and advanced transformation activity.
Review existing plans and advanced transformation activity.
Research Visit
Establish the operational baseline and future vision.
Establish the operational baseline and future vision.
Evolution Planning
Build the integrated roadmap, projects, priorities, and controls.
Build the integrated roadmap, projects, priorities, and controls.
Implementation Support
Facilitate project teams and sustained execution.
Facilitate project teams and sustained execution.
Education & Coaching
Develop the knowledge needed to support operating change.
Develop the knowledge needed to support operating change.
For advanced organizations
TSRB Industry 4.0 Audit Review
The Audit Review is intended for organizations already well advanced in their Industry 4.0 journey and typically scoring highly on the Readiness Survey.
One of our experts visits your facility, reviews your existing Evolution Plan and current Industry 4.0 activities, and produces a performance audit report that identifies strengths, gaps, risks, and opportunities to improve execution.
Typical audit focus
- Alignment between strategy, operating priorities, and digital investments
- Evidence that technology is improving cost, output, inventory, quality, or delivery
- Strength of the existing implementation roadmap and project governance
- Use of performance measures to confirm progress and expose constraints
- Organizational adoption, education, ownership, and sustainability
Industry 4.0 Evolution Plan
A structured three-phase implementation process
TSRB's 12-step implementation process progresses from research and shared understanding to detailed planning and disciplined execution.
Research Visit & Report
Establish the current operating baseline, develop the future vision, quantify opportunities, and define the implementation strategy.
- Onsite research and team engagement
- Preliminary feedback presentation
- Executive Industry 4.0 education
- Full written report
- Recommended implementation schedule
Evolution Planning
Mobilize key staff to design the future operating process and define the projects required to close the gap between the current baseline and industry entitlement.
- Detailed business process design
- Lean and digital transformation integration
- Project charters and priorities
- Education and planning teams
- Controls, measures, and savings model
Plan Implementation
Activate prioritized implementation teams, facilitate execution, measure progress, and sustain management focus on the Evolution Plan.
- Project team activation
- Facilitation and implementation support
- Performance measurement team
- Evolution Plan scorecard
- Progress review and adjustment
12Implementation steps
3Integrated phases
1Organization-specific Evolution Plan
OngoingMeasurement and improvement
Phase 1 details
Research Visit & Report
The Research Visit is typically an intensive onsite engagement, followed by a preliminary report and feedback presentation to your team and an offsite effort to produce the complete written report.
The visit includes a concise executive education session for participating team members to establish a common understanding of Industry 4.0 theory, Lean concepts, digital transformation, and continuous improvement imperatives.
Purpose: create a shared, evidence-based view of where the business is today, what better performance could look like, and how the organization can move forward in a coordinated way.
Current-state operational baseline
Review the present business and production flow, document the current operating baseline, and prepare a process flowchart that makes material, information, decisions, constraints, and delays easier to understand.
Future-state vision and entitlement
Define a future vision of the entitled process flow and the improvements that may be possible across business systems, organizational practices, technology, facility design, and operating performance.
Financial savings review
Use an Industry 4.0 savings-modeling tool to estimate potential value and leave the model with your organization as an ongoing improvement and decision-support tool.
Improvement projects and technology options
Propose improvement projects that close identified performance gaps and comment on future technology, digital transformation, business planning, and capital improvement options that support the future Industry 4.0 vision.
Detailed implementation schedule
Provide a suggested schedule following the TSRB 12-step process. The first six steps develop the Evolution Plan in Phase 2, and the final six steps execute the plan in Phase 3. Required education and coaching are estimated and included.
Preparation before the visit
Key team members participating in the Research Visit will be asked to review selected TSRB position papers and complete the applicable Lean and Industry 4.0 surveys or scorecards.
This creates a common language and gives the onsite team more time to focus on evidence, operating realities, and future-state decisions.
Mobilizing the operating team
Business process change produces sustainable value only when the people who operate the process understand it, help shape it, and support the transition.
Survey inputs and onsite findings are consolidated into the final presentation and report delivered to leadership and key staff.
Phase 2 details
Evolution Planning
Phase 2 applies the implementation strategy and future vision developed in Phase 1. Key staff are mobilized to define the projects that close the gap between today's operating baseline and the best-practice entitlement for the industry.
Business-process redesign
Review the entire business process, including departmental and interdepartmental relationships, roles, responsibilities, and information needs.
- Create a detailed future-state business process flow
- Optimize value-adding work
- Reduce or eliminate non-value-adding activity
- Integrate Lean and digital transformation concepts
- Focus on cost, output, inventory, and delivery performance
Constraints, projects, and specifications
Identify operational constraints, bottlenecks, movement, waste, handling, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Define future-state project solutions
- Prepare process flows and layouts
- Develop facility upgrade requirements
- Define digital service and technology specifications
- Prepare implementation details for project teams
Management system and performance control
Install a formal and sustainable continuous improvement process supported by an Evolution Plan project-control system.
- Define business performance measures
- Create a prioritization and review environment
- Finalize the continuous-improvement savings model
- Track realized improvements as projects progress
- Keep senior management focused on priorities
Education, planning teams, and commitment
Deliver the general and subject-specific education identified in Phase 1, then establish planning teams focused on the defined improvement projects.
- Build the knowledge required for effective planning
- Engage operating team members in the new process
- Gain concurrence on process and facility changes
- Create ownership before implementation begins
- Increase the likelihood of sustained adoption
Phase 3 details
Evolution Plan Implementation
Project teams defined during Phase 2 are activated with senior-management approval and prioritized to focus on measurable results.
TSRB assists and facilitates the teams as they implement their mandates. The work remains grounded in the 12-step process, the agreed future-state design, and the project priorities established in the Evolution Plan.
An overall performance-measurement team develops a scorecard used to review progress, expose barriers, confirm benefits, and keep leadership focused on the execution of the plan.
Implementation governance
- Senior management authorizes and prioritizes implementation projects
- Project teams receive clear mandates, scope, and expected outcomes
- TSRB facilitates teams and supports the implementation process
- Performance measures confirm whether the changes produce results
- The Evolution Plan scorecard supports regular management review
- Projects and priorities are adjusted as new evidence becomes available
Further reading & videos
Continue exploring Industry 4.0
Article
Read Article
The Promise of Industry 4.0
Video
Watch Video
Industry 4.0 — Nigel Southway
Begin with readiness
Start your Industry 4.0 journey with a clear view of your current position.
Complete the free survey, receive your results by email, and use the complimentary expert meeting to identify the most practical next steps for your organization.
Industry 4.0 Readiness & Implementation Support
Know where you are. Define where you can go. Build the plan to get there.
Take the free TSRB Industry 4.0 Readiness Survey to evaluate your organization's current capabilities across people, process, performance, Lean practices, digital transformation, and implementation planning.
Free readiness assessment
Results emailed to you
Complimentary expert review
A practical starting point
From assessment to actionable next steps
The readiness survey is designed to help your leadership team begin with a shared view of the present state before deciding where to invest effort, technology, and capital.
Complete the Readiness Survey
Answer questions about your current operating model, Lean foundation, digital capabilities, organizational readiness, measurement practices, and evolution planning.
Receive Your Results
After completion, your survey results will be emailed to you so your team can review the assessment and identify the areas that deserve deeper discussion.
Meet with TSRB Experts
Schedule a complimentary online meeting to review your responses, discuss the assessment, and explore practical priorities for your Industry 4.0 journey.
Expert-guided discussion
Turn survey results into a focused management conversation.
Lean experience. Digital transformation experience. Practical manufacturing perspective.
Complimentary post-survey meeting
Understand what your survey results mean for your organization
This online meeting gives your team direct access to Industry 4.0 professionals with hands-on experience in both Lean and digital transformation.
We use your survey results and the discussion with your team to explain the assessment in greater detail, clarify the operating realities behind the scores, and suggest next steps appropriate to your current level of readiness.
We also explain TSRB's multi-phase implementation support and how a tailored Evolution Plan can coordinate the thought-ware, software, hardware, education, and organizational changes required for a successful Industry 4.0 journey.
- Review the strongest and weakest readiness areas
- Discuss operational priorities and business constraints
- Identify practical next steps rather than isolated technology purchases
- Determine whether an audit, research visit, or full Evolution Plan is appropriate
Who is TSRB?
Industry professionals focused on sustainable operating improvement
TSRB & Associates brings together experienced industry professionals who have helped organizations develop, implement, and strengthen continuous improvement capabilities.
Our work connects business strategy, operating processes, Lean principles, organizational readiness, performance measurement, digital transformation, and technology planning. The objective is not simply to install new tools. It is to create an integrated Evolution Plan that improves how the business operates and how the organization sustains progress.
We provide a complete set of support services and products for organizations beginning, advancing, or validating their Industry 4.0 journey.
Visit the TSRB WebsiteReadiness Assessment
Evaluate people, process, technology, and planning maturity.
Evaluate people, process, technology, and planning maturity.
Industry 4.0 Audit
Review existing plans and advanced transformation activity.
Review existing plans and advanced transformation activity.
Research Visit
Establish the operational baseline and future vision.
Establish the operational baseline and future vision.
Evolution Planning
Build the integrated roadmap, projects, priorities, and controls.
Build the integrated roadmap, projects, priorities, and controls.
Implementation Support
Facilitate project teams and sustained execution.
Facilitate project teams and sustained execution.
Education & Coaching
Develop the knowledge needed to support operating change.
Develop the knowledge needed to support operating change.
For advanced organizations
TSRB Industry 4.0 Audit Review
The Audit Review is intended for organizations already well advanced in their Industry 4.0 journey and typically scoring highly on the Readiness Survey.
One of our experts visits your facility, reviews your existing Evolution Plan and current Industry 4.0 activities, and produces a performance audit report that identifies strengths, gaps, risks, and opportunities to improve execution.
Typical audit focus
- Alignment between strategy, operating priorities, and digital investments
- Evidence that technology is improving cost, output, inventory, quality, or delivery
- Strength of the existing implementation roadmap and project governance
- Use of performance measures to confirm progress and expose constraints
- Organizational adoption, education, ownership, and sustainability
Industry 4.0 Evolution Plan
A structured three-phase implementation process
TSRB's 12-step implementation process progresses from research and shared understanding to detailed planning and disciplined execution.
Research Visit & Report
Establish the current operating baseline, develop the future vision, quantify opportunities, and define the implementation strategy.
- Onsite research and team engagement
- Preliminary feedback presentation
- Executive Industry 4.0 education
- Full written report
- Recommended implementation schedule
Evolution Planning
Mobilize key staff to design the future operating process and define the projects required to close the gap between the current baseline and industry entitlement.
- Detailed business process design
- Lean and digital transformation integration
- Project charters and priorities
- Education and planning teams
- Controls, measures, and savings model
Plan Implementation
Activate prioritized implementation teams, facilitate execution, measure progress, and sustain management focus on the Evolution Plan.
- Project team activation
- Facilitation and implementation support
- Performance measurement team
- Evolution Plan scorecard
- Progress review and adjustment
12Implementation steps
3Integrated phases
1Organization-specific Evolution Plan
OngoingMeasurement and improvement
Phase 1 details
Research Visit & Report
The Research Visit is typically an intensive onsite engagement, followed by a preliminary report and feedback presentation to your team and an offsite effort to produce the complete written report.
The visit includes a concise executive education session for participating team members to establish a common understanding of Industry 4.0 theory, Lean concepts, digital transformation, and continuous improvement imperatives.
Purpose: create a shared, evidence-based view of where the business is today, what better performance could look like, and how the organization can move forward in a coordinated way.
Current-state operational baseline
Review the present business and production flow, document the current operating baseline, and prepare a process flowchart that makes material, information, decisions, constraints, and delays easier to understand.
Future-state vision and entitlement
Define a future vision of the entitled process flow and the improvements that may be possible across business systems, organizational practices, technology, facility design, and operating performance.
Financial savings review
Use an Industry 4.0 savings-modeling tool to estimate potential value and leave the model with your organization as an ongoing improvement and decision-support tool.
Improvement projects and technology options
Propose improvement projects that close identified performance gaps and comment on future technology, digital transformation, business planning, and capital improvement options that support the future Industry 4.0 vision.
Detailed implementation schedule
Provide a suggested schedule following the TSRB 12-step process. The first six steps develop the Evolution Plan in Phase 2, and the final six steps execute the plan in Phase 3. Required education and coaching are estimated and included.
Preparation before the visit
Key team members participating in the Research Visit will be asked to review selected TSRB position papers and complete the applicable Lean and Industry 4.0 surveys or scorecards.
This creates a common language and gives the onsite team more time to focus on evidence, operating realities, and future-state decisions.
Mobilizing the operating team
Business process change produces sustainable value only when the people who operate the process understand it, help shape it, and support the transition.
Survey inputs and onsite findings are consolidated into the final presentation and report delivered to leadership and key staff.
Phase 2 details
Evolution Planning
Phase 2 applies the implementation strategy and future vision developed in Phase 1. Key staff are mobilized to define the projects that close the gap between today's operating baseline and the best-practice entitlement for the industry.
Business-process redesign
Review the entire business process, including departmental and interdepartmental relationships, roles, responsibilities, and information needs.
- Create a detailed future-state business process flow
- Optimize value-adding work
- Reduce or eliminate non-value-adding activity
- Integrate Lean and digital transformation concepts
- Focus on cost, output, inventory, and delivery performance
Constraints, projects, and specifications
Identify operational constraints, bottlenecks, movement, waste, handling, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Define future-state project solutions
- Prepare process flows and layouts
- Develop facility upgrade requirements
- Define digital service and technology specifications
- Prepare implementation details for project teams
Management system and performance control
Install a formal and sustainable continuous improvement process supported by an Evolution Plan project-control system.
- Define business performance measures
- Create a prioritization and review environment
- Finalize the continuous-improvement savings model
- Track realized improvements as projects progress
- Keep senior management focused on priorities
Education, planning teams, and commitment
Deliver the general and subject-specific education identified in Phase 1, then establish planning teams focused on the defined improvement projects.
- Build the knowledge required for effective planning
- Engage operating team members in the new process
- Gain concurrence on process and facility changes
- Create ownership before implementation begins
- Increase the likelihood of sustained adoption
Phase 3 details
Evolution Plan Implementation
Project teams defined during Phase 2 are activated with senior-management approval and prioritized to focus on measurable results.
TSRB assists and facilitates the teams as they implement their mandates. The work remains grounded in the 12-step process, the agreed future-state design, and the project priorities established in the Evolution Plan.
An overall performance-measurement team develops a scorecard used to review progress, expose barriers, confirm benefits, and keep leadership focused on the execution of the plan.
Implementation governance
- Senior management authorizes and prioritizes implementation projects
- Project teams receive clear mandates, scope, and expected outcomes
- TSRB facilitates teams and supports the implementation process
- Performance measures confirm whether the changes produce results
- The Evolution Plan scorecard supports regular management review
- Projects and priorities are adjusted as new evidence becomes available
Further reading & videos
Continue exploring Industry 4.0
Article
Read Article
The Promise of Industry 4.0
Video
Watch Video
Industry 4.0 — Nigel Southway
Begin with readiness
Start your Industry 4.0 journey with a clear view of your current position.
Complete the free survey, receive your results by email, and use the complimentary expert meeting to identify the most practical next steps for your organization.