In an age where data-driven decision making is critical to business success, harnessing the power of information has become crucial for manufacturers.

A manufacturing dashboard is a real-time, visual representation of a manufacturing process or production facility as a whole. Manufacturing dashboards combine data cards, graphs, tables, and other visualization techniques to make production KPIs easy to understand. They organize data from machines, sensors, devices, and workers into easy-to-read, instantly available breakdowns that can be displayed across the shop floor. By digitizing your production dashboards, you don’t have to spend time gathering and analyzing production data. It’s all there for you right when you need it. Below, we’ll introduce you to a number of different manufacturing dashboard examples. We’ll walk you through: The kinds of manufacturing data they’re displaying How they’re organizing it The improvements these dashboards unlock 6 examples of manufacturing dashboards to transform your shop floor 1.) The “Mission Control” Dashboard “Mission control” dashboards are high-level overviews for keeping the whole team aligned. In this dashboard, we see all of the information we need to get a sense of how production is going on a given day. From there, you can see how that day stacks up against others that month. Here is what this type of dashboard can show you: How long since the last safety incident Operating conditions (you could also add temperature, noise, or other ambient conditions) A breakdown of how each operator has performed during by day for the month A daily unit count with first pass yield Line-specific break downs, with options for clicking to new dashboard