Guest expert
Geoff Ellis
Chief Operating Officer at Wherefour, Inc., with public-profile experience in high-growth P&L leadership and M&A integration.
Everything you get
- Four expert video lessons, about 2 hours 20 minutes. Recorded conversations with Geoff Ellis (COO, Wherefour), Jack Payne (30+ years in food and beverage technology, author of Appetite for Success), Isaac Caruso (Principal Solutions Engineer, Uncountable) and Matthew Wright (founder of FOREST and Specright, 25+ years in packaging).
- Root Cause Analysis Investigation Pack. Six editable forms that take an event from first report to sign-off: Incident and Product-Control Report, Evidence Index and Event Timeline, Cause-Analysis Worksheet, Corrective-Action Tracker, Effectiveness Review Tracker, and Management Approval and Similar-Asset Review. Canadian and US versions in Word and Excel, plus a full worked example and a README.
- 5 Whys Template Pack for food and beverage plants. Editable Excel and Word templates, a printable worksheet, a plant quick-start sheet, a CAPA effectiveness checklist, and three worked examples: food manufacturing, food safety contamination and beverage bottling.
- The 40-page ebook Financial Hemorrhage on the Factory Floor. Its Waste Leakage Map links each loss point to a warning signal and a response, from raw material to finished product.
- Four assignments on your own records. Together they build a review pack for one plant problem: a one-day loss baseline, a food waste measurement map, an evidence chain audit and a control trial card.
- Lifetime access to the videos, the ebook and every tool for one payment of CAD $199.
The four parts
- Measure the loss behind the standard (Geoff Ellis, 37 min). See how standards, scrap and rework reports, short stops and handoffs hide the real cost, and split material loss from capacity loss. You build: a one-day loss baseline.
- Measure food waste before it disappears into a total (Jack Payne, 41 min). Separate inedible scrap, recoverable material, yield loss and giveaway without counting anything twice. You build: a measurement map for one product route.
- Make the loss record useful for an investigation (Isaac Caruso, 24 min). Link an event to its batch, materials, process conditions, quality result and evidence, then see where AI can help once those links exist. You build: an evidence chain audit of one past event, using the RCA forms.
- Choose a control and check that it works (Matthew Wright, 39 min). Find the real bottleneck before adding automation, and check measured results before rolling a change out. You build: a control trial card, with the 5 Whys templates to confirm the cause.
Why teams choose this course
- It starts on the plant floor, with the records you already have, not with software.
- Every lesson ends with work on your own line, so you finish with evidence, not just notes.
- The templates are ready to use the same week, in the formats your team already works in.
- Four practitioners from operations, food technology, data and packaging, each focused on one part of the problem.
Access
One payment of CAD $199 gives lifetime access to the four videos, the ebook, the RCA Investigation Pack and the 5 Whys Template Pack. The whole course is also included with the CPAI Premier, Premier Team and Premier Factory access plans for as long as the plan is active. See access plans
