One day, played through

A day with the kit on your shopfloor

Shopfloor management doesn't live inside Excel — it lives at the board and in the huddle. Here is what a day can look like — an example routine with real excerpts from a generated kit. How many huddles you run, which KPIs they cover and at which data level — workstation, machine group or plant — is entirely up to you in the configurator.

  1. 05:45

    End of early shift

    Five numbers, two minutes

    The shift lead enters the day's actuals — onto the paper entry sheet at the machine or straight into Excel. With the traffic-light circles filled in, the completed sheet is already visual management: anyone walking past sees at a glance what's running well and where it's stuck — without opening a dashboard.

    At the machine: the filled-in entry sheet makes the day's status visible as you walk past.

    At the machine: the filled-in entry sheet makes the day's status visible as you walk past.

    At the machine: the filled-in entry sheet makes the day's status visible as you walk past.
    Real excerpt: entry sheet with a traffic-light circle per KPI.

    Real excerpt: entry sheet with a traffic-light circle per KPI.

    Real excerpt: entry sheet with a traffic-light circle per KPI.
  2. 08:30

    Shopfloor huddle at the machine-group board

    Ten minutes at the board, not in the office

    The dashboard shows every KPI as a traffic-light card: actual, target, delta, 30-day trend. Green isn't discussed. Red gets an action — and the safety cross hangs right next to it.

    Real meeting dashboard from a generated kit — traffic lights, target and trend per KPI.

    Real meeting dashboard from a generated kit — traffic lights, target and trend per KPI.

    Real meeting dashboard from a generated kit — traffic lights, target and trend per KPI.
  3. 08:40

    Deviation becomes action

    Who. What. By when.

    Every red card ends as a row in the action tracker: owner, due date, PDCA status. Overdue actions flag themselves red — nothing gets lost in notebooks.

    Action tracking with automatic red flagging of overdue items

    Action tracking with automatic red flagging of overdue items

    Action tracking with automatic red flagging of overdue items

When it stalls: the meeting chain

Escalation isn't drama — it's an appointment

What the huddle can't solve moves one level up — with clear rules instead of gut feeling. Nothing sits still, and plant management only sees what it needs to see.

Shift huddle

daily · at the workplace

Area huddle

daily · all lines

Plant & top management

weekly · monthly

Due date missed → flagged red instantly; 7 days overdue and the action escalates one level up automatically (threshold is yours to set)14 days overdue → automatically a management matter — and you can escalate deliberately via dropdown any time
Illustration of the escalation cascade: three shopfloor boards — shift huddle, area huddle, plant huddle — with escalation arrows from one level to the next
  1. Friday

    Weekly review with the plant manager

    Trends, not daily noise

    Once a week, direction is what counts: the KPI detail pages show actual vs. target over time. One bad Tuesday doesn't matter — a bad direction does.

    Weekly review at the board: the plant-round printouts come straight from the kit.

    Weekly review at the board: the plant-round printouts come straight from the kit.

    Weekly review at the board: the plant-round printouts come straight from the kit.
    KPI detail page: large actual value, daily deviation, actual-vs-target trend

    KPI detail page: large actual value, daily deviation, actual-vs-target trend

    KPI detail page: large actual value, daily deviation, actual-vs-target trend
  2. Month start

    Monthly review with top management

    The month on one page

    Month comparison and yearly trend come from the same daily values — nobody copies anything together. Attendance and the safety cross have their own evaluation in their own workbook.

    Team evaluation from the attendance workbook — only the group level goes on the board

    Team evaluation from the attendance workbook — only the group level goes on the board

    Team evaluation from the attendance workbook — only the group level goes on the board

What it costs you daily — honestly

  • Data entry: a handful of numbers per workplace and shift — the configurator shows you a live estimate of the pure typing time for your selection.
  • The huddle itself: 5–15 minutes. The dashboards calculate everything automatically — nothing is evaluated by hand.

Your day looks different? That's exactly what the configurator is for.

Meetings, shifts, KPIs and board formats — set up for your operation in about 10 minutes.