For small & mid-sized manufacturers · no software installation
Shopfloor management your production team will actually use.
The Shopfloor Management Kit generates your personal SQDC solution in minutes: Excel boards for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Morale — plus action tracking, safety cross, guide and print templates. Tailored to your machines, shifts and meetings.
- One-time payment
- No subscription
- No hidden costs
Direct purchase · instant download after payment
A real generated dashboard (print view from the Excel workbook): traffic lights, target/delta/trend and a 30-day history per KPI — all calculated with plain Excel formulas. All numbers: sample data.
How it works
1. Configure
Answer questions about your operation in about 10 minutes: machines, shifts, shopfloor meetings and the KPIs you want to run.
2. Generate
You receive a ZIP with your personal Excel workbook, action tracking, guide PDF and print templates — with sample data so you can try everything immediately.
3. Get going
Delete the sample data, put up the board, run your first huddle. The guide walks you through the first four weeks to a stable routine.
What is inside?
A complete shopfloor management system — not an empty template.
Excel workbook with SQDC dashboards
One dashboard per shopfloor meeting: KPI cards with traffic light, target, delta and 30-day trend. Data entry per workplace and area, formulas calculate everything automatically.
Action tracking (PDCA)
A separate workbook for actions from your meetings: owners, deadlines, escalation — with a printable sheet per meeting and automatic red flagging of overdue items.
Safety cross
Monthly and annual cross with traffic-light colors and a days-without-accident counter — the shopfloor board classic, ready to print.
Attendance tracking
Team attendance per group with monthly matrix and rate evaluation — privacy-aware: only team-level numbers go on the board.
Personal PDF guide
Typically 10–20 pages, tailored exactly to your configuration: KPI definitions, meeting agenda, and a rollout plan for the first four weeks — compact instead of a paper pile.
Print & entry templates
Blank boards and paper entry sheets per workplace and area — for operators without PC access, with columns matching the Excel exactly.
From value to huddle
A day with the kit
Enter data, run the board huddle, create actions, escalate along the meeting chain — played through once, with real excerpts.
Play through the day →
All the tools
The product tour
Dashboards, action tracking with escalation, safety cross, attendance, print templates, the guide — every tool shown for real.
See everything →Is the kit right for you?
We are upfront about what the kit is built for — and what it is not.
Built for
- Small and mid-sized manufacturers up to roughly 50 workplaces — from small shops to mid-sized plants with several lines.
- Teams that want to run shopfloor management with Excel, paper and a board — no IT project, no approval process, no subscription.
- Beginners and switchers alike: a guided start with a few KPIs, the full SQDC scope once your routine is stable.
Deliberately not included
- No real-time ERP/MES integration — the kit complements your systems at the board, it does not connect to them.
- No cloud dashboard, no app, no server — everything runs locally in your Excel files.
- No LibreOffice or Google Sheets support — you need Microsoft Excel 2016+ or Microsoft 365.
- Not a large-plant solution — if you run hundreds of workplaces on MES/production-data software, you need a different tool.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the kit for?
Small and mid-sized manufacturers — from small shops up to roughly 50 workplaces. Industries: machining, sheet metal, plastics, wood, food, pharma, printing, textiles, chemicals and more. Large plants running dedicated MES/production-data software are deliberately not our target group.
Do I need special software?
No. All you need is Microsoft Excel (2016 or newer, or Microsoft 365). Everything runs on plain Excel formulas — no macros, no add-ins, no cloud requirement. LibreOffice and Google Sheets are not officially supported.
How much daily effort does it take?
That depends on your configuration — the configurator shows you a live estimate of the daily data-entry effort for your selection (pure typing time; determining the numbers on the floor comes on top). Rule of thumb: the more workplaces, shifts and KPIs, the more time to plan for. The shopfloor huddle itself is designed for 5–15 minutes — the dashboards calculate everything automatically, nothing is evaluated by hand.
What does the kit cost?
The kit costs €349 incl. tax as a one-time purchase — no subscription, no per-user licenses, no hidden costs. Configuration and preview are free; you only pay for the download. You will see the price again in the configurator before you pay anything.
We already have ERP/MES — does the kit replace it?
No, it complements it: ERP/MES manage orders and bookings, the kit makes deviations visible on the board and drives the daily huddle. Data entry is deliberately simple (Excel or paper entry sheet) — no interface project, no IT approval needed.
The Excel sheets are protected — how can I change something?
Sheet protection is deliberately set WITHOUT a password: it prevents accidentally overwriting formulas while all orange input cells stay editable. To remove it: right-click the sheet tab → "Unprotect Sheet" (or Review → Unprotect Sheet) — no password is requested. Best re-enable it afterwards.
What happens to my data?
Your configuration is processed to generate your kit and then deleted automatically: the checkout draft after at most 24 hours, the generated package after at most 48 hours. We permanently store only your proof of purchase (kit key in hashed form, purchase email, company name) — until you request deletion. You receive your config.json inside the ZIP, so you can regenerate an updated kit later. Details: privacy policy.
Can I adapt the kit later?
Yes. New machine, new shift, more KPIs: run the configuration again and regenerate. The guide sheet in the workbook also explains how to make small changes directly in Excel.
German or English?
Both. The entire package — workbooks, guide, templates — is generated in the language you configure in. For US customers including Letter/Tabloid print formats and dollar amounts.