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Production Dashboard for a Manufacturing Company

A confidential manufacturing company moved from end-of-day paper logs to a live, plant-wide production dashboard — providing supervisors and management with dashboard-based visibility of plan vs actual, downtime and rejection while the shift is still running.

The business challenge

Problems surfaced only after the shift had ended

Production was recorded on paper and compiled into reports the next day. By the time management saw plan-vs-actual gaps, downtime or rejection trends, the shift was over and the opportunity to react had passed.

Supervisors lacked a single live view of the floor, and management reports were assembled by hand — late, effort-intensive, and rarely in agreement with what operators had recorded.

Operational impact — before Edhaas

What the team lived with day to day

End-of-day blindness

Plan vs actual was only known after the shift ended.

Hidden downtime

Breakdowns and changeovers weren't captured, so losses stayed invisible.

Manual MIS

Management reports were compiled by hand and often late.

Late rejection signals

Scrap and rework were noticed after material was already lost.

What Edhaas built

A live production system shaped to their floor

Edhaas built production tracking and dashboards around the company's routings, machines and shift patterns.

Work-order & job tracking

Every order's quantity, stage and status tracked against plan.

Live plan vs actual

Real-time output by line, machine and shift.

Downtime & OEE capture

Breakdowns and changeovers logged to measure losses.

Rejection & rework logging

Scrap captured by reason, operation and machine.

Supervisor floor screens

Live status visible on the floor, not just in reports.

Automated management MIS

Reports generated automatically instead of by hand.

Workflow covered

From work order to MIS — tracked live

  1. 1Work Order
  2. 2Job Scheduling
  3. 3Shop-Floor Execution
  4. 4Production Logging
  5. 5Downtime & Rejection
  6. 6Live Dashboards
  7. 7MIS Reporting

Key features

What the system does

Real-time dashboards

Plan vs actual and losses, updated as work happens.

OEE breakdown

Availability, performance and quality in one view.

Downtime reasons

Structured capture of stoppage causes.

Shift & machine views

Compare output across machines, lines and shifts.

Mobile / large-screen ready

Usable on the floor and on management devices.

Automated reports

Scheduled MIS without manual compilation.

Business outcomes

What changed after go-live

Outcomes are described qualitatively. Specific figures are kept confidential at the client's request.

Real-time visibility

Plan vs actual seen during the shift, not the next morning.

Faster response

Downtime and rejection surfaced in time to act.

Reliable MIS

Management reporting generated automatically from floor data.

Improved visibility for dispatch planning

Live order tracking helped the team monitor dispatch commitments more closely.

Inside the system

What the software looks like

Representative interfaces from this type of build. Actual client screens are confidential.

Live production dashboard view
Live production dashboard — illustrative.
Work-order and execution tracking view
Work-order tracking — illustrative.

Questions

About this production dashboard project

The client's identity and specific figures are kept confidential at their request. We describe the engagement in general terms.
It can use operator entry, machine data where available, or a mix — the approach is chosen to fit the floor.
Yes. Screens are designed for fast entry so logging doesn't slow production.
Yes. The rollout began on a focused area and expanded across the plant in phases.

Want better production visibility during the shift?

Tell us how you track output today and where it leaks — we'll show you a live production system built around your floor.