GFT / Decision instruments
Turn an operating question into explicit inputs, a visible method and a result you can challenge. The instrument is useful when the decision becomes clearer.
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of 24 instruments shown · every one opens a web route
The instrument wall / By family
Instrument named
Hover, focus or select a face to name it.
The faces are schematic idle states, not telemetry or results. A web route means the interface joins this build; it does not certify the model. Read the method and test an alternative before using a result.
The register / Read by family
The model, its assumptions and its method sit behind it. Each row on the reading line lifts its face into the loupe.
Line, capacity, routine and risk: questions a supervisor or plant manager can act on this shift.
Cost, access, place and currency: the commercial boundary of an industrial decision.
Forecasts, inspection and machine learning, each tested against a simpler baseline.
Water, energy, carbon and provenance on a stated production boundary.
The capture, validation and recovery path behind the records an instrument reads.
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Use the instrument as a decision path
Signal
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01 Question · One ring: the decision boundary
An instrument starts with a question a person can act on. Distinguish a material-flow question from a capacity, quality, resource or cash question. The useful output is the one that changes a choice within that person’s responsibility.
02 Inputs · Two rings: units and time window
Record units and time windows before comparing scenarios. Good output, total output and nameplate capacity are different denominators. An illustrative default explains the controls; replace it with a checked local value before relying on the result.
03 Calculation · Three rings: the alternative needle appears
Work through a meaningful alternative. Change the uncertain input, inspect the method note and check the direction of movement. If a small change reverses the conclusion, the next task may be collecting better evidence rather than selecting a technology.
04 Use · Four rings: a conditional band around the result
A scenario result remains conditional on its inputs. Preserve the input set and formula with any shared output. A model can help frame procurement or pilot design, but a calculated benefit must still be tested against actual production and the agreed comparator.
From output to accepted output / Illustrative shift
OEE separates availability, performance and quality on one time boundary, so you can see where productive time failed to become good output. A utilisation ratio is a different measure and should not be relabelled as OEE.
Illustrative shift, not GFT or client data; losses are percentage points of planned time. Replace it with a coherent record of planned time, downtime, cycle definition, counts and rejects. A tool cannot repair incompatible denominators.
Source: Vorne, OEE calculation ↗Inspect the OEE methodKeep the result conditional
Compare ·
Hover, focus or tap a base to read its denominator.
Boundary
A wage is not a labour cost per accepted garment. Installed capacity is not saleable output. A forecast is not observed demand. Use the tool’s stated boundary to keep the comparison coherent, then record any local condition that the model omits.
Uncertain input ·
Sensitivity
Change assumptions deliberately. A larger output does not make a scenario more credible. Where the result depends on a difficult input, identify the measurement or quotation that could reduce uncertainty. Keep adverse cases beside the preferred case.
Operating effect ·
Application
Use the scenario to define a bounded test, comparator and acceptance condition. Count implementation, maintenance and review costs where relevant. These instruments support exploration and are not investment, legal or tax advice. Specialist decisions require current evidence and appropriate review.
Choose a station: each one opens a part of the programme
The operating context matters
Commercial question
Read the feasibility summary for the material base, market, operating assumptions and conditions behind an industrial decision.
The programme joins feasibility, performance management and digital strategy; each instrument exists to expose one of its operating assumptions. The research library and the method page carry the longer reasoning and the treatment of derived and illustrative values.
Read the research register ↗Check the evidence method ↗Cotton value-flow explorer
Open Cotton value-flow explorerFaces are schematic. Every instrument opens its own model, assumptions and method; a result stays conditional on the inputs you keep with it.