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For manufacturers with 20 to 500 employees

Find the hidden costs. And cut them measurably.

Energy, wages, materials: everything is getting more expensive. The savings are hidden in your processes, and TaktBase guides your team to them step by step. No prior knowledge needed, results measured in euros. And your team learns lean along the way.

Join the pilot How it works

Pilot phase: free for up to 10 companies

Setter at the machine taps a time measurement into his tablet
Recording Change the tool
Changeover−60%
before
1 h 58 min
after
47 min
confirmed saving €39,264 per year

Figures from the fictitious demo company

  • No prior knowledge needed
  • Guided step by step
  • Tablet, phone or browser
  • No integrations needed
  • Servers in Germany

Life on the shop floor

Every day, money leaks away in your processes. Nobody sees where.

Energy, wages and materials keep getting more expensive. Your prices rarely do. To push back, you need to know where your processes lose time and money. And that is exactly what nobody sees in day-to-day work.

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  1. 01

    Costs go up, prices don’t

    Every increase in energy, wages or materials comes straight off your margin. You can rarely pass it on.

  2. 02

    Nobody knows where the money goes

    Waiting, searching, walking back and forth, long changeovers. Every step costs staff time, machine time and energy. Exactly how much, nobody sees.

  3. 03

    The know-how is missing in-house

    Time study, lean, continuous improvement: who really knows their way around them? Outside help is expensive, and it takes months for someone to get up to speed.

  4. 04

    Savings claimed, never proven

    Without proof in euros, the next project is hard to justify. So it never gets started.

What TaktBase is

TaktBase is the platform your production team uses to find and cut the hidden costs in its own processes. Guided, step by step, from the first measurement to a saving that has been re-measured in euros.

Who works with it?
The production manager leads and decides. Shift and team leaders measure and run the workshop. The team brings the ideas. Management and finance read the result in euros. You don’t need an industrial engineer.
What does it replace?
Stopwatch, clipboard and Excel for time recording. Whiteboards and shouted suggestions for ideas. Emails and to-do lists for implementation. And gut feeling when the question is: is it worth it?
What do you need to start?
One line, a tablet or phone, a browser. No installation, no integration. The first result in euros is usually there after two to four weeks.
What it is not
Not an ERP or MES add-on, not project management software, not process mining and not permanent monitoring. TaktBase runs on its own, cycle by cycle, alongside production.

How an improvement cycle works

From the first measurement to a proven saving.

The method is built into the app. Your team follows it step by step, on one line, alongside day-to-day work, and learns how continuous improvement works along the way.

  1. 01

    Record

    A team leader measures the process right at the line, on a tablet or phone. One tap per step, the clock runs along.

    Time recording in progress on a phone
  2. 02

    See the waste

    For every step, TaktBase shows whether it adds value, partly or not at all. Waiting, searching and walking become visible.

    Process analysis with a bar per step, by value type
  3. 03

    Improve together

    In a guided workshop, your team asks of every step: eliminate, combine, rearrange or simplify? The ideas come from the people who do the work.

    Workshop with idea cards for each work step
  4. 04

    Plan the new process

    The ideas become the to-be process. At the push of a button, TaktBase arranges the steps optimally and shows how much time is freed up.

    Planned to-be process as a timeline
  5. 05

    Decide in euros

    Every measure gets a euro value and a payback period, with staff, machine, electricity and compressed-air costs. You start with what pays off most.

    Cost-benefit calculation with payback period
  6. 06

    Implement and re-measure

    Every measure has an owner and a deadline until it is done. Then the team measures again. The report shows the real saving in euros.

    Target-actual comparison with the confirmed saving

What counts in the end

The process shrinks. The saving grows.

Red bars are time nobody wants to pay for. When the team cuts them, the process closes up. The re-measurement does the rest.

Changeover of injection moulding machine

value adding partially non value adding
before1 h 58 min
after47 min
Fetch the new tool from storageFetch tooleliminated
Wait for the tool to cool downWait to cooleliminated
Remove the old toolRemove tool
Fit and connect the new toolFit new tool
Start up to the first good partStart-up
Check and release the first partFirst part
Target lead time 1 h
€39,264 confirmed saving per year

Example from the fictitious demo company, re-measured in the app. Real case studies will follow with the pilot companies.

What changes for whom

One goal. Everyone in the company gains.

Management

Lower costs per part. You see what every process step costs, energy included, and which improvement pays off first.

Payback in months, re-measured in euros. No new digital project: a tablet is enough, no integrations.

Production management

Less firefighting. You find hidden savings on your line and implement improvements with your own team, no time-study course needed.

A guided process, one line after another. And you show management the euros.

Team and shift leaders

Your ideas count, and the daily obstacles disappear: less waiting, searching and walking.

The ideas come out of the workshop with the team, and everyone learns lean hands-on. Nobody is timed as a person.

Finance

Savings re-measured instead of estimated. And a clear order for which improvement gets money next.

Cost-benefit per measure with staff, machine and energy costs, and a report you can pass on.

Works council

We measure the process, not the person.

Analysis at process level only, measurements as time-limited campaigns, ideas from the team.

IT and data protection

Not an IT project: TaktBase runs in the browser, with no connection to ERP or MES.

Servers in Frankfurt am Main, GDPR, data processing agreement.

Who it’s for

Is TaktBase right for your company?

To be honest: not for everyone. It pays off most where processes repeat often.

Hands holding a tablet above three trays of similar plastic parts

✓A good fit

  • Lines or cells with a small number of similar variants
  • 20 to 500 employees, no lean department of your own
  • Processes that repeat often: changeovers, assembly, packing, cleaning
  • Someone on the team can spare a few hours a week

–Not a fit (yet)

  • One-off production with hundreds of part numbers
  • You are looking for machine or order control
  • The goal is to rate individual people’s performance
Setter with a tablet under her arm at the running line

Trust

You measure the process, not the person.
  • 01

    Analysis at process level

    TaktBase evaluates processes, not people. Measurements happen in time-limited campaigns.

  • 02

    The team takes part

    The ideas come from the workshop with the people on the line. That builds acceptance instead of resistance.

  • 03

    Data in Germany

    Servers in Frankfurt am Main, GDPR, data processing agreement under Art. 28.

  • 04

    Not an IT project

    Runs in the browser, on tablet, phone and PC. No installation, no integration.

Pilot programme 2026/27

Shape TaktBase with us.

We are looking for 5 to 10 manufacturers who will use TaktBase on one line and tell us honestly what helps and what is missing.

Three colleagues at the machine discuss an improvement idea

You get

  • The full feature set, free for the pilot phase
  • An introductory workshop with us, on site or online
  • A direct line to the founder and a say in what we build next
  • Afterwards, special terms for founding customers

We ask for

  • 30 minutes of honest feedback every two weeks
  • One line with a process worth improving, such as a changeover or a bottleneck
  • A mutual non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
  • If it works: a short case study with your figures
  1. 1Apply, 2 minutes
  2. 2Introductory call, 30 minutes
  3. 3NDA and pilot agreement
  4. 4Start on your line

Apply as a pilot company

Salutation

Frequently asked questions

What companies ask us first.

Do we need lean or time-study know-how?

No. The method is built into the app: guided time recording, automatic analysis, a workshop with guiding questions. Short tips on every page explain what matters.

Does our team learn anything along the way?

Yes. In a cycle with TaktBase, your team applies time recording, waste analysis, ECRS and cost-benefit calculation itself. That is how continuous improvement becomes routine in your own company, without training up front.

How soon will we see a result?

One cycle on one line usually takes two to four weeks until the decision in euros. The re-measurement follows as soon as the measures are implemented.

What will the works council say?

TaktBase evaluates processes, not people. Measurements happen in time-limited campaigns, and the ideas come from the team. We recommend involving the works council early, and we help you with it.

Where is our data stored?

On servers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. You get a data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR.

Do we need to install or connect anything?

No. TaktBase runs in the browser on tablet, phone and PC. No connection to ERP or MES is needed.

Does TaktBase replace external consultants?

TaktBase is the tool your team uses to improve things itself, and the routine stays in-house. If you want support with workshops or change, you bring in a partner, who then works with you in TaktBase.

What happens after the pilot phase?

You decide. If you continue, you get special terms as a founding customer. If you stop, you pay nothing.

Which languages is TaktBase available in?

German, English and French, in the app and on this website.

Start with one line.

Two minutes to apply, thirty to get to know each other. Your team measures the rest.

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