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# STAGE 2 BV: Belgian software company developing Houston, a continuous improvement
platform for manufacturing.

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## Posts
- [Why Excel Fails at Quality Management (And What to Do About It)](https://gethouston.com/resources/why-excel-fails-at-quality-management-and-what-to-do-about-it/): It's Friday afternoon. You open Quality_Tracker_FINAL_v3.xlsx. Three formulas are broken. The chart has jumped. Someone sorted two columns "just to check something." And the intern who wrote the macro left in September.
- [Replace Excel Quality Tracking and Improve Quality Performance](https://gethouston.com/resources/replace-excel-quality-tracking/): Replace Excel quality tracking with real-time dashboards, automated alerts and proper action management. Improve quality and reclaim hours every week.
- [The Hidden Cost of Continuous Improvement](https://gethouston.com/resources/the-hidden-cost-of-continuous-improvement/): Continuous Improvement is creating hidden waste. Learn why traditional CI systems plateau and how autonomous improvement can reverse the trend.

## Pages
- [Poka-yoke](https://gethouston.com/glossary/poka-yoke/): Home / Glossary / Poka-yoke
- [Kaizen](https://gethouston.com/glossary/kaizen/): Home / Glossary / Kaizen
- [Gemba walk](https://gethouston.com/glossary/gemba-walk/): Home / Glossary / Gemba walk
- [Kinney method](https://gethouston.com/glossary/kinney-method/): Home / Glossary / Kinney method
- [Near miss incident](https://gethouston.com/glossary/near-miss/): Home / Glossary / Near miss
- [QMS vs continuous improvement software](https://gethouston.com/glossary/qms-vs-continuous-improvement-software/): Home / Glossary / QMS vs CI software
- [Operational excellence](https://gethouston.com/glossary/operational-excellence/): Home / Glossary / Operational excellence
- [Cost of poor quality (COPQ)](https://gethouston.com/glossary/copq/): Home / Glossary / Cost of poor quality
- [Yield loss](https://gethouston.com/glossary/yield-loss/): Home / Glossary / Yield loss
- [Recurrence detection](https://gethouston.com/glossary/recurrence-detection/): Home / Glossary / Recurrence detection
- [KPI impact verification](https://gethouston.com/glossary/kpi-impact-verification/): Home / Glossary / KPI impact verification
- [Impact verification](https://gethouston.com/glossary/impact-verification/): Home / Glossary / Impact verification
- [PDCA cycle](https://gethouston.com/glossary/pdca/): Home / Glossary / PDCA cycle
- [What is root cause analysis in manufacturing?](https://gethouston.com/glossary/root-cause-analysis/): Home / Glossary / Root cause analysis
- [What is 5-Why analysis in manufacturing?](https://gethouston.com/glossary/5-why/): Home / Glossary / 5-Why analysis
- [8D methodology](https://gethouston.com/glossary/8d-methodology/): Home / Glossary / 8D methodology
- [What is the difference between corrective action and preventive action?](https://gethouston.com/glossary/corrective-action-vs-preventive-action/): Home / Glossary / Corrective vs preventive action
- [Non-conformity](https://gethouston.com/glossary/non-conformity/): Home / Glossary / Non-conformity
- [CAPA](https://gethouston.com/glossary/capa/): Home / Glossary / CAPA
- [Resources](https://gethouston.com/resources/): Home / Resources
- [Glossary](https://gethouston.com/glossary/): Home / Resources / Glossary
- [Closed-loop improvement system](https://gethouston.com/glossary/closed-loop-improvement-system/): Home / Glossary / Closed-loop improvement system
- [FAQ](https://gethouston.com/faq/): Home / FAQ
- [Free Non-Conformity Management Software | Houston](https://gethouston.com/free-non-conformity-management-software-houston/): Stop tracking quality NCs in Excel. Capture non-conformities from the shop floor, monitor resolution in real-time, and eliminate repeat defects. Free forever.
- [Foundations](https://gethouston.com/foundations/): Centralize all your field issues in one place. Track corrective actions in real-time. Start improving for real.
- [EHS Management](https://gethouston.com/use-cases/ehs-management/): Move beyond paper forms and reactive reporting. Houston helps you capture incidents and near-misses in real-time, track safety performance automatically, and prevent recurring hazards.
- [Quality Management](https://gethouston.com/use-cases/quality-management/): Stop firefighting quality issues in spreadsheets. Houston helps you capture non-conformities, track defect rates in real-time, and systematically eliminate recurring problems.
- [How it works](https://gethouston.com/how/): Houston guides your teams through a complete improvement loop, from capturing operational data to monitoring performance to driving measurable improvement. Here's exactly how it works.
- [Industry](https://gethouston.com/industry/)
- [Use Cases](https://gethouston.com/use-cases/): From quality to safety, maintenance, logistics and beyond, Houston applies the same AI-powered improvement loop to every operational process.
- [Why Houston](https://gethouston.com/why-houston/): Houston is a continuous improvement platform for manufacturing, developed by STAGE 2 BV (Ghent, Belgium). It enables quality, EHS and production teams to turn persistent problems (yield losses, recurring defects, unresolved incidents) into verified results by connecting problem capture, root cause analysis and corrective actions to measurable KPI impact. Houston was built by the team behind Solvace, deployed at L'Oréal, Danone, AbbVie and 100+ manufacturing sites worldwide.
- [About](https://gethouston.com/about-3/): Houston exists to make operations improvement faster, easier, and more effective by embedding AI directly into the daily workflows of industrial teams.
- [Blog](https://gethouston.com/blog-2/): Home
- [Contact](https://gethouston.com/contact/): Houston, developed by STAGE 2 BV (Belgium), is a continuous improvement platform built for manufacturing environments. It connects structured problem capture, root cause analysis (5-Why, 8D) and corrective actions to measurable KPI verification, creating a closed-loop system where every improvement action is tied to the metric it should influence. The platform supports quality, EHS and production use cases, is operational within hours, and scales from single-site SMEs to multi-site industrial groups. Houston was built by the team behind Solvace, deployed at L’Oréal, Danone, AbbVie and over 100 manufacturing sites worldwide.
- [Your 24/7 Assistant for Operations Improvement](https://gethouston.com/): Your 24/7 assistant for Operations Improvement

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