1. Lean Manufacturing Tools
  2. Roles and access
Reference

Who can do what in Lean Manufacturing Tools

Agree who captures evidence, who coordinates the response and who may make each review decision.

How permissions work

Quality Manager

Plan audits and inspections, maintain quality records and coordinate the people responsible for findings and corrective work.

Inspector

Capture assigned observations and check results. Use the inspection commands for lifecycle changes and the improvement commands for owned Kaizen work.

Quality Approver

Read the relevant evidence and make eligible inspection and effectiveness decisions through the authorized review commands. Queue visibility does not grant general editing authority.

Improvement Reviewer

Configure the responsible reviewer for 5S submissions and the approval and verification decisions on Kaizen work.

Admin

Maintain account-to-person mappings and approved access configuration. Confirm the domain authority separately before assigning review responsibilities.

Who can do what

Permissions by role
Role5S AuditsKaizen ImprovementInspectionsNonconformance ControlCorrective Action ReviewDocument Control
Quality ManagerEditEditEditEditEditEdit
InspectorEditEditEditViewViewView
Quality ApproverViewViewViewViewViewView
Improvement ReviewerViewApproveView—ViewView
AdminEditEditEdit—EditEdit

Each role in detail

Quality Manager

Owns quality setup, planning and assigned operational work.

Can

  • Manage audit findings, Audits, controlled documents, corrective actions, five S audit checks, inspection checks, Inspections, kaizen proposals, Nonconformances, training acknowledgments
  • View People

Starts on: Document Draft Inbox

Inspector

Captures assigned quality work and evidence.

Can

  • Manage audit findings, five S audit checks, inspection checks, kaizen proposals
  • View Audits, controlled documents, corrective actions, Inspections, Nonconformances, People, training acknowledgments

Starts on: Active Audits

Quality Approver

Reviews evidence and authorizes eligible domain outcomes.

Can

  • View audit findings, Audits, controlled documents, corrective actions, five S audit checks, inspection checks, Inspections, kaizen proposals, Nonconformances, People, training acknowledgments

Starts on: Document Draft Inbox

Improvement Reviewer

Reviews Five S evidence and makes approval and verification decisions on Kaizen work under the authority agreed during setup.

Can

  • View Audits, audit findings, five S audit checks, kaizen proposals, People

Reviews and approves

  • Approve five S audit checks, kaizen proposals

Starts on: Active Audits

Admin

Maintains authenticated user mappings and approved access configuration.

Can

  • Manage Users, People
  • View Audits, Inspections, corrective actions, corrective action reviews, kaizen proposals, controlled documents

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