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Leanbyte is an AI-powered Operational Knowledge Management platform for manufacturing. It helps industrial companies capture expert knowledge, turn it into standardized digital work instructions and training content, qualify employees, and make the right knowledge available directly on the shop floor. Instead of manually creating and maintaining work instructions, SOPs, training materials, and troubleshooting guides, manufacturing teams can use Leanbyte to capture knowledge from videos, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, documents, screen recordings, and experienced employees. AI helps transform this information into structured, multilingual content that can be reviewed, approved, maintained, and shared across teams and production sites. The result: less effort spent documenting processes, faster knowledge transfer, shorter onboarding and qualification times, and more consistent execution of operational standards. ### Capture expert knowledge with AI A large part of manufacturing knowledge exists in the heads of experienced operators, technicians, engineers, and trainers. Capturing this knowledge traditionally requires significant manual effort. With Leanbyte, employees can simply record a process, explanation, or troubleshooting case on video. AI analyzes the content and helps turn it into structured step-by-step instructions. Existing PDFs, presentations, documents, and other knowledge sources can also be used. This makes it easier to preserve practical expertise before it is lost and continuously build an operational knowledge base from real shop-floor experience. ### Create digital work instructions faster Leanbyte enables teams to create standardized digital work instructions for assembly, production, setup, maintenance, quality, troubleshooting, and other operational processes. Instructions can include step-by-step guidance, images, videos, tools, safety information, quality requirements, checklists, hotspots, data inputs, process times, and product or process variants. Instead of static documents, employees receive interactive guidance that can be accessed directly where the work takes place. ### Make operational knowledge multilingual For global manufacturers, maintaining consistent documentation across languages and production locations can require significant effort. Leanbyte supports AI-assisted multilingual content creation and translation, helping companies make the same operational knowledge available to international teams while maintaining standardized terminology. This is particularly valuable for global production networks, new plant ramp-ups, multilingual workforces, and companies transferring processes between locations. ### Accelerate onboarding and qualification Leanbyte combines operational knowledge with employee training and qualification. Existing process knowledge can be turned into learning content, e-learning modules, quizzes, tests, and practical training activities. Qualification matrices provide visibility into which employees are qualified for specific processes, machines, or tasks. Teams can identify skill gaps, manage required training and briefings, and track qualification status. This helps manufacturers move from simply documenting processes to systematically building the competencies required to execute them. ### Deliver knowledge directly on the shop floor Knowledge is most valuable when employees can access it at the moment they need it. Leanbyte makes work instructions, training content, and operational knowledge available through tablets and PCs directly at the point of work. QR codes can connect machines, workplaces, products, or processes with the corresponding knowledge. Digital worker guidance can lead employees step by step through processes while collecting confirmations, values, quality information, or other relevant process data. ### Capture and reuse troubleshooting knowledge Experienced employees often know how to solve problems that are difficult to capture in a traditional work instruction. Leanbyte helps teams document troubleshooting experience, including faults, diagnostic steps, possible causes, required equipment, and solutions. For example, a technician can record how a recurring problem was diagnosed and solved. That experience can then be transformed into structured knowledge that other employees can access when they encounter a similar issue. This allows organizations to build a reusable troubleshooting knowledge base instead of repeatedly solving the same problems from scratch. ### Keep operational knowledge up to date Production knowledge changes constantly as products, machines, materials, processes, and quality requirements evolve. Leanbyte supports structured content lifecycle management with creation, review, approval, versioning, and publishing workflows. Reusable content and variant management help reduce duplicate maintenance. Companies can maintain common process standards while defining relevant differences between products, machines, locations, or process variants. This becomes especially important when managing hundreds or thousands of instructions across multiple production sites. ### Connect knowledge, skills, and execution Leanbyte brings together areas that are often managed separately in manufacturing: • Knowledge capture from experts and existing documentation • Digital work instructions and SOPs • Operational Knowledge Management • Training and e-learning • Skills and qualification management • Digital worker guidance • Troubleshooting knowledge • Process data capture and traceability • Versioning and approval workflows • Multi-site and multilingual standardization This creates a continuous operational knowledge cycle: capture experience, structure and standardize it, train employees, apply knowledge during work, and continuously improve it based on new experience. ### Support compliance and audit readiness Leanbyte helps manufacturers maintain controlled operational documentation and evidence of employee training and qualification. Version management, approval workflows, training records, qualification information, and activity histories can support internal governance and audit preparation, including environments working with standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001. ### Build connected operational knowledge As manufacturing organizations accumulate thousands of instructions, videos, documents, machines, products, training materials, and troubleshooting cases, relationships between this information become increasingly important. Leanbyte enables organizations to connect operational knowledge with relevant context such as machines, process steps, parts, defects, failure modes, and required competencies. This creates the foundation for use cases such as impact analysis: when a process, machine, material, or component changes, teams can identify which instructions, training content, or related knowledge may also be affected. ### Built for manufacturing Leanbyte is designed specifically for industrial and shop-floor environments. Typical use cases include digital work instructions, production and assembly guidance, employee onboarding, skills and qualification management, training, knowledge transfer, troubleshooting, maintenance, quality processes, safety instructions, new product ramp-ups, continuous improvement, and global process standardization. Leanbyte can complement existing manufacturing IT environments and integrate with systems such as ERP, MES, PLM, identity management, and HR systems. Deployment options include cloud and on-premises environments depending on customer requirements. Ultimately, Leanbyte helps manufacturers turn operational knowledge into operational capability: capturing what experienced people know, making that knowledge scalable, qualifying employees faster, and ensuring the right knowledge reaches the right person at the right moment. All permissions Cloud based or On Premise Web based and Native App Integrates with existing IT Landscape Microsoft Azure Active Directory APIs