LAK International Launches 30-Day Free Trial for “Koutei Board Pro,” a kintone-Based Process Management Plugin for Manufacturers

LAK International Co., Ltd. has started offering a 30-day free trial of “Koutei Board Pro,” a process management plugin for manufacturers that runs on kintone. Koutei Board Pro visualizes progress across processes such as order receipt, design, machining, assembly, inspection, and shipment in a Kanban-style board. With alerts for stagnation days and delivery deadlines, as well as WIP limits, it helps teams detect signs of delivery delays and process bottlenecks earlier. Because the plugin can be added to existing kintone apps, companies can begin with the visibility they need at lower risk before considering a full replacement of heavy production management systems. Small and medium-sized manufacturers often rely on a mix of Excel, whiteboards, paper, and verbal confirmation, making it difficult to immediately see which job is stopped at which process. Even when project and work data is stored in kintone, table-based lists can be hard for shop-floor teams to use, creating extra confirmation work during morning briefings and progress meetings. Koutei Board Pro converts kintone records into process-based cards that are easier to understand on the shop floor. The same screen can be shared on large factory monitors, production management desks, or remotely, reducing the time spent asking around for updates and speeding up decision-making. Key features include Kanban-style display using the data structure of existing kintone apps; one-screen visualization of process progress, stagnation, and delivery risk; stagnation-day alerts, deadline alerts, and one-click filtering of abnormal cases; WIP limits and process controls to reduce bottlenecks, skipped steps, and improper returns; full-screen display and automatic refresh for factory monitors and progress meetings; and integration with i-Reporter so work reports, inspection records, and completion reports can be linked to kintone and reflected in process progress. LAK International says it has supported many manufacturing DX projects using tools such as i-Reporter and kintone. Through this work, it found that many companies had accumulated data but still struggled with hard-to-read lists, unclear stoppage points, and late awareness of delivery delays. Koutei Board Pro was developed as an option for turning existing kintone data into a shop-floor-friendly process board and starting with the visibility that teams need first. The product is recommended for make-to-order and high-mix low-volume manufacturers, sites with around five to ten process steps that need to track job-by-job progress, companies reaching the limits of Excel, whiteboards, and verbal confirmation, organizations already using or considering kintone, companies that want to share process progress on shop-floor monitors, and teams that want to use i-Reporter data for process visualization. Koutei Board Pro supports Kanban display, stagnation-day alerts, deadline alerts, WIP limits, process control, full-screen display, automatic refresh, and i-Reporter integration. Applications for the 30-day free trial, product materials, and process-visualization demo consultations are available through the product page.