Where Is Friction Hiding
In Your Operation?
Take the Operational Blind Spot Assessment and find out in 10 minutes.
Most manufacturing leaders know something is slowing them down. Quoting takes too long. Knowledge walks out the door. Maintenance is more reactive than planned. Schedules look good on paper but fall apart on the floor. The problem is, these patterns are hard to see from the inside. This assessment is designed to surface them.
What You'll Receive
A comprehensive diagnostic designed to reveal the operational patterns you can't see from the inside.
Operational Health Score
A personalized score across 5 critical categories that shows exactly where your operation stands.
Blind Spot Identification
Identification of the specific operational patterns creating hidden drag in your business.
Practical Recommendations
Grounded, actionable recommendations — not generic consulting advice.
Personal Debrief Call
A one-on-one debrief call with Traci McQueen to walk through your results and build a plan.
How It Works
Answer 26 Questions
Honest, practical questions about how your operation actually runs — not how you wish it ran. Takes about 10 minutes.
Get Your Score
Receive your Operational Health Score with a detailed breakdown across 5 categories, plus the specific blind spot patterns detected in your answers.
Debrief With Traci
In a 60-minute conversation, walk through your results together, dig into the patterns, and identify the 2-3 highest-impact actions you can take immediately.
Get Your Operational
Health Score
The full assessment includes a 26-question diagnostic, your personalized Operational Health Score with category breakdown, detected blind spot patterns with actionable recommendations, and a 60-minute personal debrief call with Traci McQueen. One investment: $495.
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Built on 35 Years of
Shop-Floor Reality
This assessment was created by Traci McQueen, Founder of Apex Operations Partners. After 35+ years in manufacturing, construction, defense, and MedTech — including running her own manufacturing company — Traci has seen the same operational patterns show up again and again. This tool is built on that pattern recognition. It's not theory. It's what actually happens inside operations.
5 Critical Categories
The assessment evaluates your operation across five dimensions that together determine your operational health.
Quoting & Revenue Flow
Speed and accuracy of converting opportunities into revenue
Knowledge & People Risk
Vulnerability to loss of key people and undocumented expertise
Maintenance & Equipment Reliability
Whether your equipment strategy is proactive or reactive
Production Flow & Execution
Whether schedules reflect reality or wishful thinking
Leadership Visibility & Control
Whether leadership can see what's really happening
Ready to See What's
Really Going On?
The patterns are already there. This assessment just makes them visible.
Start the Assessment