Live OEE and production dashboards your floor can actually use
Manufacturing analytics software that connects to your MES, ERP, or SQL historian — including SAP, Epicor, Infor, and Plex. Track cycle time, defect rates, and line performance in real-time. Visible to operators, supervisors, and plant managers at once, without adding BI seats for everyone.
Sound familiar?
Shift reports that arrive after the shift
By the time the OEE report lands in email, the problems it describes are hours old. You're always analyzing the last shift, not the current one.
MES, ERP, and historian don't talk
Production data is in the MES. Maintenance is in the ERP (SAP, Epicor, Infor, Plex). Quality is in a spreadsheet. No one has the full picture without hours of manual stitching.
Defects found at the end of the line
Quality issues that show up in cycle time variance or defect PPM trends are invisible until the end-of-run inspection. Catching them early requires real-time process monitoring.
BI tools priced per seat that never reach the floor
Enterprise BI licenses are built for analysts, not operators. Paying $70/month per seat to give every supervisor and line lead a view isn't how the budget gets approved.
How DashboardFox works for manufacturing
Query your production database directly — SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or via ODBC to SAP, Epicor, Infor, or Plex. Build the charts your engineers actually use. Share them without adding to the BI bill.
Units produced and OEE on the same view — different axes
Bar + line combo charts let you overlay production volume against efficiency metrics. See if you're hitting unit targets while OEE drifts, or spot the shift where throughput drops as defects rise.
- Left axis for volume, right axis for %, no scale conflicts
- Daily, shift, or weekly rollups from the same dataset
- Overlay target reference lines for instant pass/fail context
Find the speed-quality tradeoff hiding in your process data
Scatter plots reveal relationships your summary tables miss. Plot machine speed against defect rate and instantly see which lines hold quality at pace — and which ones don't.
- Color-code points by line, shift, or product type
- Spot outlier runs that skew your averages
- Built from your existing shift or run-level production data
TV mode for the floor
Put live OEE, line status, and shift targets on screens throughout the facility. No login, no browser issues — just a URL and a TV.
Range bars for cycle time variability
Show min-to-max cycle time spread by machine or line. Instantly see which machines are drifting outside spec — and which are holding tight tolerances.
One dataset, many views
Same shift data feeds the operator TV, the supervisor tablet, and the plant manager's weekly report. Row-level security means each level sees exactly what they need.
Threshold alerts without a data team
Set OEE minimums, defect PPM limits, or downtime thresholds. When a line breaches them, the right people get notified — automatically.
What a manufacturing dashboard looks like
OEE, cycle time variability, speed-quality scatter, and production trends — all from one dataset.
Manufacturing plant analytics dashboard
Cycle time range bars expose process variability by line. The combo chart overlays daily production volume against OEE — with one glance you can see which days hit throughput targets and which sacrificed efficiency to get there.
The bottom line
