Digital shop floor board

The board where a team meets every day for its shop floor meeting, also written shopfloor board. It shows the team's KPIs, current deviations and open countermeasures. The board is the central leadership tool in shop floor management and is connected to the boards of the levels above through the cascade.

Usually in four areas: KPIs, often grouped by SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people), the most important issues of the week, open countermeasures with owner and due date, and the team's lists such as missing parts, shift handover or Go & See.

With a few KPIs the team can influence itself, fixed areas in fixed places, and a standard that applies to every team. The board should be up to date before the meeting so the meeting is done in 10 to 15 minutes. Digitally, templates and automatic values take over much of this work.

In ValueStreamer, KPIs and lists are set up once as templates and then added to the teams. That way, every team board is built from the same standard, and line, department and plant calculate with the same definitions. You create lists such as missing parts, shift handover or inventory lists with the list editor.

Values come in automatically instead of being copied by hand, every countermeasure has an owner and a due date, and the next level sees the same board without asking. The history is kept, and teams can even meet at the same board across sites.

The link between shop floor meetings across levels: first the team meets at the line, then the department, then the area or plant. Whatever one level cannot solve goes up, and decisions come back down. In ValueStreamer, the cascade navigator shows this structure and opens any unit's board with one click.

Nothing special. ValueStreamer runs in the browser without installation: on the large screen at the line, on tablets or laptops. During implementation, we advise on which screens and locations fit your meetings.

ValueStreamer sends notifications by email and in Microsoft Teams. That way, owners hear about new issues and countermeasures even when they are not standing at the board.

A board that shows work in columns by status, such as open, in progress and done. Cards move from left to right, which makes bottlenecks and overload visible. In ValueStreamer, the task board and the process board work on this principle.