Manufacturing dashboards
Your shop floor data, connected and live
OEE lives in one system, job costing in another, BOMs in engineering. RapidDashboard joins them in a private data store and answers plain-English questions with a full leadership dashboard.
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One question, one full dashboard
Pick a question. RapidDashboard answers with KPIs, charts, the records behind them and an AI summary of what to do next. Hover any chart for values or open its table view.
Show me OEE by production line and which Epicor jobs are behind schedule this week.
Plant performance
Plant OEE
81.4%
+3.1 pts vs last month
Availability
90.2%
+1.4 pts unplanned stops down
Jobs on schedule
47 / 53
89% on-time this week
Behind schedule
6
-2 vs last week
- Line A
- Line B
- Line C
- Line D
- World-class 85%
| Line A | Line B | Line C | Line D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W29 | 82% | 70% | 76% | 74% |
| W30 | 83% | 71% | 77% | 73% |
| W31 | 84% | 72% | 78% | 72% |
| W32 | 83% | 71% | 79% | 73% |
| W33 | 85% | 73% | 78% | 71% |
| W34 | 86% | 72% | 80% | 72% |
| W35 | 85% | 73% | 81% | 70% |
| W36 | 86% | 74% | 80% | 71% |
| W37 | 87% | 73% | 81% | 70% |
| W38 | 86% | 74% | 82% | 69% |
| W39 | 87% | 74% | 81% | 70% |
| W40 | 87% | 74% | 82% | 69% |
Target: 85%
| Work order | Customer | Part | Due | Complete | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WO-4821 | Northfield Hydraulics | Manifold block 7A | Oct 3 | 4 days late | |
| WO-4807 | Delta Agri Systems | Pivot housing | Oct 4 | 2 days late | |
| WO-4833 | Kessler Marine | Shaft coupler | Oct 6 | 1 day late | |
| WO-4840 | Northfield Hydraulics | Valve body 3C | Oct 7 | At risk | |
| WO-4812 | Ridgeway Fluid Power | Pump end cap | Oct 8 | Recovering |
What changed and what to do
- Critical: WO-4821 for Northfield Hydraulics is 4 days behind and 58% complete. The Oct 3 delivery needs a second shift on Line D or a customer call today.
- Warning: Line D OEE has slipped 5 points in 12 weeks. Availability losses cluster on Monday first shift, which points to start-up and changeover.
- Good: Line A held 87% OEE for the third straight week, above the 85% world-class mark.
AI summary
Plant OEE reached 81.4%, up 3.1 points on last month, driven by better availability on Lines A and C. Six Epicor jobs are behind schedule; WO-4821 carries the highest delivery risk. Line D is the one line trending down, so the recommended next step is a changeover review on Line D and a daily stand-up on the six late work orders until they recover.
Ask next
- Why is Line D down on Mondays?
- Which customers have late jobs?
- Show changeover time by line
What is our scrap rate by work center compared with last quarter, and what is causing it?
Scrap & first-pass yield
Scrap rate
2.9%
-0.4 pts vs Q2
First-pass yield
94.1%
+1.2 pts vs Q2
Cost of scrap
$38.2K
-$6.1K this quarter
Open NCRs
14
+3 vs last month
What changed and what to do
- Warning: Weld porosity accounts for 31% of scrapped pieces. Most cases trace to one wire lot received in week 31.
- Good: Scrap is down on every work center versus Q2, worth $6.1K this quarter.
- Info: Open NCRs rose to 14. Eight of them are awaiting supplier response on material defects.
AI summary
Scrap fell to 2.9% in Q3 from 3.3% in Q2, and first-pass yield improved to 94.1%. Weld remains the largest contributor at 4.2%, with porosity the single biggest cause. Recommend a supplier corrective action on the week 31 wire lot and a gas-flow check on Weld cell 2.
Ask next
- Which parts drive weld scrap?
- Show NCRs by supplier
- Cost of scrap by customer
Which SolidWorks BOM revisions have not synced to Epicor in the last 7 days?
Engineering release sync
BOMs in sync
78%
+6 pts vs last month
Pending sync
14
-3 released, not in ERP
Stale over 7 days
8
+2 vs last week
ECOs in review
6
0 avg 3.2 days
- In sync5078%
- Pending914%
- Stale58%
| Segment | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| In sync | 50 | 78% |
| Pending | 9 | 14% |
| Stale | 5 | 8% |
- Released
- In review
- Drafted
| Released | In review | Drafted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| W33 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| W34 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| W35 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| W36 | 7 | 3 | 5 |
| W37 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| W38 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
| W39 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| W40 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| Assembly | Rev | Released by | Days waiting | Open jobs | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HX-200 manifold | D | M. Ortiz | 11 | 3 | Jobs on old rev |
| PV-14 pivot housing | F | J. Lindqvist | 9 | 1 | Jobs on old rev |
| SC-8 coupler | B | M. Ortiz | 8 | 0 | Stale |
| VB-3C valve body | C | R. Patel | 5 | 2 | Pending |
| EC-40 end cap | A | R. Patel | 2 | 0 | Pending |
What changed and what to do
- Critical: Four open jobs are running on superseded revisions of HX-200 and PV-14. Both revisions were released over a week ago.
- Warning: Stale revisions doubled since August. Most wait on a single Epicor approval queue.
- Good: Sync coverage reached 78%, the best month since tracking began.
AI summary
Of 64 released BOMs, 50 match Epicor, 9 are pending and 5 have waited more than a week. The two oldest revisions already affect four open jobs, which is the immediate risk. Recommend pushing HX-200 Rev D and PV-14 Rev F today and adding a second approver to the Epicor engineering workbench queue.
Ask next
- Which jobs use superseded revisions?
- Average days from release to ERP
- ECOs by engineer
Compare actual labor hours with quoted hours for open JobBOSS jobs and show where margin is slipping.
Labor efficiency & job margin
Labor efficiency
88%
-2 pts quoted ÷ actual
Hours over quote
312
+46 across 9 jobs
Margin at risk
$46K
+$7K vs last week
Jobs on quote
31 / 40
78% within 5% of quote
| Item | Quoted hours | Actual hours |
|---|---|---|
| Job 101 | 120 | 128 |
| Job 118 | 64 | 60 |
| Job 204 | 180 | 205 |
| Job 221 | 42 | 44 |
| Job 236 | 96 | 92 |
| Job 310 | 150 | 198 |
| Job 322 | 72 | 81 |
| Job 347 | 210 | 214 |
| Job 412 | 132 | 186 |
| Job 418 | 54 | 51 |
| Job 425 | 88 | 104 |
| Job 431 | 160 | 158 |
| Step | Change |
|---|---|
| Quoted | $212K |
| Labor overrun | -$31K |
| Material | -$9K |
| Outside svc | -$6K |
| Price adj | +$4K |
| Projected | $170K |
- Job 310 · Kessler Marine198 / 150 hrs
- Job 412 · Northfield Hydraulics186 / 132 hrs
- Job 204 · Delta Agri Systems205 / 180 hrs
- Job 425 · Ridgeway Fluid Power104 / 88 hrs
What changed and what to do
- Critical: Jobs 310 and 412 are 32% and 41% over quoted labor. Both include the same 5-axis setup that was quoted at 2 hours and averages 6.
- Warning: Labor overrun removes $31K from quoted margin on open jobs, the largest single driver.
- Info: Most jobs land within 5% of quote. The overruns concentrate in new part numbers on their first run.
AI summary
Open jobs were quoted at $212K of margin and now project $170K. Labor overrun accounts for $31K of the gap, concentrated in Jobs 310 and 412, which share an underquoted 5-axis setup. Recommend updating the setup standard in the quoting template to 6 hours and reviewing first-run part numbers before release.
Ask next
- Which quote templates miss most often?
- Margin by customer this year
- Show setup time by machine
Show 90-day production capacity by work center against booked and forecast load.
Capacity plan
Load vs capacity
94%
+7 pts next 13 weeks
Bottleneck
Weld
118% peak week 46
Overtime needed
420 hrs
+130 to hold due dates
Open capacity
1,180 hrs
Saw, Assembly available to sell
- Booked + forecast load
- Capacity
| Booked + forecast load | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|
| W41 | 1,980 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W42 | 2,050 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W43 | 2,140 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W44 | 2,210 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W45 | 2,290 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W46 | 2,380 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W47 | 2,320 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W48 | 2,260 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W49 | 2,190 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W50 | 2,120 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
| W51 | 1,940 hrs | 1,800 hrs |
| W52 | 1,780 hrs | 1,800 hrs |
| W1 | 2,010 hrs | 2,240 hrs |
118%
of available hours · target 100
- Booked
- Forecast
- Capacity
| Booked | Forecast | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weld | 3,420 | 1,250 | 3,960 |
| CNC mill | 4,680 | 920 | 5,720 |
| Paint | 2,210 | 610 | 3,120 |
| CNC lathe | 3,160 | 540 | 4,160 |
| Assembly | 2,980 | 410 | 4,680 |
| Saw | 1,240 | 260 | 2,600 |
What changed and what to do
- Critical: Weld is booked to 118% in week 46. Moving 140 hours of fixture welding to second shift brings it under 100%.
- Warning: Plant load reaches 94% of capacity over the next 13 weeks, with holiday weeks 51 and 52 at reduced shifts.
- Good: Saw and Assembly have 1,180 open hours, enough to take on the Kessler Marine quote without overtime.
AI summary
Booked and forecast load averages 94% of capacity over the next 13 weeks. Weld is the constraint, peaking at 118% in week 46, while Saw and Assembly carry spare hours. Recommend scheduling 420 overtime hours concentrated in Weld for weeks 44 to 47 and prioritizing new quotes that route through Saw and Assembly.
Ask next
- What if we add a third weld shift?
- Which jobs drive the week 46 peak?
- Show capacity by machine
Sample data for a fictional company. Your dashboards run on your own connected systems.
Sound familiar?
Where the numbers live today
Job margin shows up late
Job cost variance surfaces when the job ships, after the hours are already spent.
Two versions of the BOM
Engineering releases a revision and the floor and Epicor catch up a few days later.
More than one OEE number
Maintenance logs downtime one way and production tracks OEE another, so meetings start by reconciling.
Capacity in one spreadsheet
The 90-day load plan lives with one planner, and everyone else works from last week's copy.
Metrics glossary
The metrics behind these dashboards
How each number is defined, so everyone reads it the same way.
- OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
-
The share of planned production time that is truly productive. 85% is widely cited as world-class for discrete manufacturing.
FormulaAvailability × Performance × Quality
- Availability
-
Run time as a share of planned production time, after unplanned stops and changeovers.
FormulaRun time ÷ Planned production time
- First-pass yield (FPY)
-
Units that complete a process correctly the first time, with no rework or scrap.
FormulaGood units first time ÷ Units started
- Scrap rate
-
Material or parts discarded as unusable, as a share of total production.
FormulaScrapped units ÷ Total units produced
- Labor efficiency
-
How closely actual labor hours track the hours quoted or standard for a job.
FormulaQuoted (standard) hours ÷ Actual hours
- Capacity utilization
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Booked and forecast load as a share of the hours a work center can produce.
FormulaLoad hours ÷ Available hours
Connections
How your systems connect
Supported APIs and exports sync into a private RapidDashboard store you approve. Dashboards read from that store, so source systems keep their normal load.
Epicor Kinetic
PullsWork orders, job costs, schedules, inventory
Official REST APIs on a scheduled, audited sync into your private store.
JobBOSS² (ECi)
PullsJobs, labor tickets, quoted vs actual hours
Vendor-supported API and secure exports, mapped to your KPI model.
SolidWorks PDM
PullsBOM revisions, ECO status, release state
PDM Web API and vault events, so engineering truth matches the floor.
MachineMetrics / MES
PullsMachine states, cycle counts, downtime reasons
Streaming or hourly pulls feed live OEE by line and machine.
What you can build
Dashboards and reports teams build next
OEE & production
- Real-time OEE by line and machine
- Downtime root causes
- Schedule adherence
Job costing
- Margin by job and customer
- Labor variance alerts
- Quote accuracy by template
Engineering
- BOM sync status
- ECO pipeline
- Jobs on superseded revisions
Automated reports
- Daily production summary
- Weekly quality review
- Monthly capacity outlook
Built for customer drawings and defense work
Manufacturing data often includes customer contracts and controlled drawings. RapidDashboard keeps it in a private data store with role-based access, with optional CMMC-aligned handling for defense suppliers. AI features are optional and run on enterprise endpoints whose terms prohibit training on your data.
FAQ
Manufacturing dashboards: common questions
What should a manufacturing dashboard show?
Most plant leaders start with OEE by line, schedule adherence for open work orders, scrap and first-pass yield, labor efficiency against quoted hours, and a 90-day capacity view. RapidDashboard builds each of these from a plain-English question, so you can add the next view in a conversation.
Can RapidDashboard connect to Epicor, JobBOSS and SolidWorks?
Yes. Epicor Kinetic and JobBOSS² connect through their official APIs, and SolidWorks PDM through its Web API and vault events. Data syncs on a schedule into a private store, so dashboards stay fast and your ERP keeps its normal load.
How is OEE calculated in these dashboards?
OEE is Availability × Performance × Quality. RapidDashboard calculates each factor from machine states, cycle counts and good-part counts, and shows the factors next to the total so you can see which loss is driving the number.
How long does it take to get a live manufacturing dashboard?
A first dashboard on connected data typically takes one working session with an AIBMM™ Certified Coach. Additional views take minutes, because each one is a new question against the same data store.
Is our production data used to train AI models?
No. Your data stays in a private store you approve, and AI features run on enterprise endpoints whose terms prohibit training on customer data. AI is optional; the dashboards work without it.
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