Why ngaide
Built by an engineer,
for engineers.
ngaide is built and maintained by an industrial engineer — for the people who actually walk the floor, not for a keynote audience.
01 — The frustration
Good methodology, bad tools.
Operational excellence is full of sound methodology and broken tooling. Audits end up trapped in Excel templates that break the moment someone inserts a row. Bottlenecks get argued over in meetings instead of measured.
Consultant decks land, look impressive, and go stale before the ink dries. The knowledge is real — the tooling lets it leak away.
02 — The belief
The method deserves better tools.
A diagnostic should be a living thing you can run again next week, not a one-off slide. A bottleneck should be something you simulate before you spend money moving it. And the audit you just finished should turn itself into a prioritized action plan — not sit in a folder.
That belief is the whole product: a line simulator built on real queueing science, and an AI that reads your audits.
03 — The method
No black boxes.
The tools run on operations research you can look up — the same math the best consultants use, made transparent.
Little's Law
WIP = throughput × cycle time. The identity every production flow obeys.
Kingman's equation
Variability and utilization — not bad luck — drive your queues (the VUT relationship).
Factory Physics
Critical WIP and the best-case line set the ceiling you are actually chasing.
04 — How it’s built
Principles, not promises.
Local-first
Your work is cached in the browser, so a workshop’s weak Wi-Fi never blocks an audit. It syncs the moment you’re back online.
Yours to export
Every audit and calculation exports to PDF or Excel, anytime. Your data is never locked inside the tool.
One language, done well
The whole platform is in English, kept clear and free of empty marketing jargon.
Rigor over theatre
Real operations research, a disciplined visual system, and no claims we can’t back. Method first.
05 — Where we are, honestly
No logos. No invented numbers.
ngaide is early-stage. There are no big customer logos to show you and no ROI figures to quote — inventing them would betray the whole point. Credibility here is built on the method, the science and the rigor of the tools, not on social proof we haven’t earned.
If you want to know exactly how your account, your data and the AI are handled, it’s spelled out plainly on the Security page.
See the rigor for yourself.
Open the line simulator, or run a 5S audit — every module is included with a free account.