Wrench Time Field Kit — Daily Inspection Route System: Guide + Excel Workbook

Every mill has the same ghost story: the bearing nobody looked at that turned into a three-day outage. How the hell did we miss that? You missed it because nobody had a system for laying eyes on the whole plant, every day, on purpose.

This is that system.

The Wrench Time Field Kit is the field rollout of the Four Moves from the book — MAP, ROUTE, STAGE, ZONE — broken down step by step, with the worksheet for each one. It walks you from a baseline (the ugly wrench-time number nobody wants to write down) to a route one person can run in a day, to the before/after proof you put on the table to sell it up the chain.

Best part: you can start tomorrow without a single sign-off. It rides alongside the work orders you've already got — same machines, same day, you're just changing the sequence. You're not going rogue, you're resequencing. The proof you build off-book is what flips the official order later.

What you get:

• The Implementation Guide (PDF) — the Four Moves step by step, plus the "riding alongside the work orders" playbook for starting without permission.

• The Field Kit Workbook (Excel, 4 tabs) — MAP (inspection-point catalogue: conditions, not just machines), ROUTE (sequence by location, fold in the WOs), STAGE (carry it once, never walk back), ZONE (own the area, then measure it with the one number that can't be gamed).

• Worked examples already in the MAP tab so you can see what good looks like — type over them or delete them.

Built by Ryan McIntosh — Red Seal Millwright, 30 years in pulp mills, sawmills, and heavy industry. Author of Wrench Time.

Want it built with your crew instead of from a blank sheet? That's at ryanmcintosh.ca.