Rafa Schwart

ALT Light page titled Nobody got hurt. Write it down anyway. A pallet seen from the side holds a stack of cartons; the top cartons lean off the edge, and a dashed outline shows where they nearly fell. Beside it, a blank card labelled Near miss is pinned up, outlined in blue, with Same day under it. A stamp reads Illustrative. Signature Rafael Schwart, process optimization and AI automation.

ALT Light page titled The promise goes on the job. Below it, a work instructions sheet with its rows for job, site, scope, materials and crew filled in as gray bars. The last field, Per customer, is an empty box outlined in blue. A stamp reads Illustrative. Signature Rafael Schwart, process optimization and AI automation.

ALT Light page titled A hot job lands Wednesday. What gets bumped? Below it, a weekly job board with five day columns, Mon to Fri, each holding job cards. A solid black card marked Hot job sits at the top of Wednesday. The cards it displaced are dashed outlines with a question mark each, two lower in Wednesday and two in Thursday. A stamp reads Illustrative. Under the board: Due dates, the customer, who pushes hardest. Signature Rafael Schwart, process optimization and AI automation.

ALT Black and cream photo of a steel shelf in a small stockroom, with two shelves of plain cardboard boxes, some pushed to the back and some at the front edge. One front box carries a blank white label. Three notes point into the photo: Where stock gets old, at the boxes in the back; Arrival date goes here, at the blank label; Oldest goes out first, at a front box. The photo is marked Illustrative, generated image. Below it: The stockroom, first in, first out. Date the box. Pull the oldest. An AI can flag aging stock, but only if the date made it onto the box. Signature Rafael Schwart, Process optimization, AI automation.

ALT Typographic poster on a light gray background. A small line at the top reads: When a customer calls about a bad part. Under it, the word LOT fills most of the poster in huge black letters. Below that, a cream strip shows a blank field labeled Lot No., with nothing written in it. Two lines follow: On the traveler: found fast. In someone's memory: guessing. At the bottom: Where does the lot number live in your shop? Signature Rafael Schwart, Process optimization, AI automation.

ALT Cream poster titled Put it at the machine, under the label Where the input happens. Two lanes compare where the entry is made. Top lane, Terminal across the shop: a machine with a part on it, a long line marked The walk, a terminal far away, and an entry card with only two short gray lines. Caption: filled in at the end of the shift, from memory. Bottom lane, Terminal at the machine: the terminal sits against the machine, marked No walk, and the entry card is full of gray lines. Caption: filled in while the part is still there. A black band at the bottom reads: Same with an AI tool. If using it means leaving the job, the input comes late and thin. Marked Illustrative. Signature Rafael Schwart, process optimization and AI automation.

ALT Black poster titled Where does a long changeover lose its time? A thin line runs from Last good part to First good part, marked Machine stopped. Under it the stop is split into three equal outlined boxes, each holding a question mark, labeled Hunting tools and fixtures, Dialing in offsets, and Waiting on material and the program. A note says Illustrative, segment sizes are not data. Below it: Which one eats most of yours? Signature Rafael Schwart, process optimization and AI automation.

ALT Illustration on a cream background titled spaghetti diagram, with the line: Every step one part walks, drawn as one line. Below, a hard vertical split. Left panel, cream, tagged Planned route: five stations, stock, saw, mill, check and pack, joined by one clean square path. Right panel, black, tagged Traced today: the same five stations, but the path wanders, runs back and forth between check and stock, and crosses three times between check and mill, where a thick light-gray ring circles the tangle with the note AI: draws it from your walk notes. A bracket under both panels leads to the caption Why it doubles back: ask the operator. Signature Rafael Schwart, marked Illustrative.