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Practical tools · Jakub Rimek

Small tools for real problems.

A growing set of small web tools – some for the factory floor, some for personal practice. Each one started as a real problem, then got cleaned up enough to share.

01 By the numbers

Real numbers from systems still in use

These come from the live systems behind the flagship tools – a two-site Scottish food manufacturer the software still runs on today.

Scale – what it runs on
4hygiene teams
27cleaning zones
57staff, two sites
221equipment tracked
500+cleaning cards
Results – what it changed
403,325rows of shift-report data captured over five years
0records lost in a live data-loss incident
2sites audit-ready for BRC & M&S

Both sites stay audit-ready for BRC and M&S on the systems these tools grew out of.

Staff figure is the current headcount across the two sites the systems run on.

02 The tools

Pick the one you need

Some live here on kubatools. Others have their own homes and open in a new tab.

Manufacturing
HMS

Hygiene Management System

Live demo · on kubatools

A full factory hygiene-management suite – cleaning schedules, shift reports, attendance and clocking, holiday board, floor plans, CIC documents, organigram and dashboards – running live on a fictional two-site demo dataset. Sign in with the on-screen password and click through every tool; the demo data resets on demand.

PC Mobile
Open the demo
Manufacturing
HP

Holiday Planner

Live demo · on kubatools

A production holiday-booking board running on a synthetic team. Book time off and approve requests in a couple of taps, then see who's off across the whole year at a glance.

PC Mobile
Open the demo
Manufacturing
CIC

CIC Maker

External · cicmaker.co.uk

Free, open-source tool for generating Cleaning Instruction Cards for any food-manufacturing environment. Built around the BRC standard.

PC
Visit site
Manufacturing
SM

SOP Maker

External · sopmaker.uk

Author controlled Safe Operating Procedures – document control, image callouts, and print-ready legal output. Self-contained and works offline.

PC – edit Mobile – view
Visit site
Manufacturing
PI

Panel Instructions

On kubatools

Build multilingual operator guides for any equipment panel. Drop hotspots on a photo, write the steps in EN / PL / RU / RO, print a QR for the machine.

PC – edit Mobile – view
Open editor
Manufacturing
PM

Panel Measurement Tool

On kubatools

Photograph a flat equipment panel, mark its corners (or trace edge-lines for rounded panels), and read real-world distances. Trace each button, screen, or hole – export a measurement report, an SVG stencil for printing, or an interactive HTML report with toggleable measurements.

PC
Open tool
Manufacturing
SOP

SOP Studio

On kubatools

Author multilingual work-instructions for factory equipment. Drop pins and highlights on photos, write the steps in EN / PL / RO / RU, generate a QR code that workers scan from their phone. Each finished instruction is a single self-contained HTML file – paste it anywhere, works offline.

PC – edit Mobile – view
Open editor
Manufacturing
KP

KPSCAN

External · kpscan.uk

Factory tray-end barcode validator. Operator scans a tray code on their phone, instantly sees if the label matches the product. PWA – works offline.

PC Mobile
Visit site
Personal Development
MT

Mentid

External · mentid.app

"Mental tidy" – a private four-tool thinking ecosystem for sorting noisy thought into clear next steps. Built to quiet a noisy head, shared for the curious.

Mobile
Visit site
Demo
OS

KubaOS Desktop

On kubatools · /desktop

The whole hub as a desktop you can play with – draggable windows, a working file system, a terminal, and a launcher for every tool above. Built for fun, and to show what a web app can be.

PC Mobile
Open the desktop
Coming Soon
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More tools landing here

In progress

Clocking and equipment-layout tools. They will appear on this page as they go live.

03 Who built these

Made from real problems, not whiteboards

These tools come from Jakub Rimek – director of DaVinci Enterprise Services, assistant hygiene manager, and freelance developer – based in Fife, Scotland and working in two worlds at once – the office where software gets specified, and the factory floor where it gets ignored. Each tool here started as a real problem: a paper guide nobody reads, a compliance form that takes too long, a barcode that needed validating before a tray went out, or a noisy head that needed sorting. I built the tool to fix it, then cleaned it up enough to share. Custom work runs through rimek.uk.