ClearTrace identifies the system constraint driving your recurring defects, high COPQ, and declining plant profitability — and shows you exactly what to do about it.
The Problem
Every month, the same corrective action. Every quarter, the same customer complaint. Containment becomes routine. COPQ keeps climbing. Your team is working harder — but the system isn't changing. That's because the root cause isn't in the process. It's in the policy, decision conflict, or resource constraint that keeps producing the defect in the first place.
The Approach
Every system has a limiting factor. Until it is identified and managed correctly, improvement efforts will produce limited results. We find yours first.
Recurring defects and high COPQ usually stem from deeper policy or decision conflicts — not from the process itself. We map the cause-and-effect relationships that your current tools miss.
Once the true causes are understood, we help leadership implement practical changes that eliminate recurring problems at the source — not just close the corrective action.
Constraint Analysis Engine
Most plants track defects. Few track the system patterns that produce them. ClearTrace maps your operational data against the six most common automotive plant constraints — material flow, verification protocol, maintenance scheduling, workforce policy, process design, and supplier integration — then scores each one so you know exactly where to focus.
What Changes
"Most improvement efforts focus on tools or local process changes.
ClearTrace focuses on the system that creates the problems."
— Bryan Clark, Founder
ClearTrace shows you the constraint, maps the cause chain, and tells you what to change. Not a report. Not a dashboard. A diagnosis you can act on this week.