Production Overview
The Production Overview dashboard is the at-a-glance read on the entire floor. It's the page production managers open first thing in the morning and last thing before leaving.
What it shows
The dashboard surfaces the same KPIs as the Production workspace, but with context and trend:
- Planned Qty — total units across all active Production Orders.
- Orders In Progress — count of Orders in In-Progress state.
- Overdue Orders — Orders past their End Date.
- Overdue Batches — Batches past their expected completion date.
Plus trend charts (output by day, defects by day, throughput by unit) and a heat-map of where work is currently sitting.
When to use it
- Morning standup. Walk through it with the production team. What's overdue? What batches are about to ship? Where are we constrained?
- Mid-shift check. Quick read to confirm nothing's gone sideways since standup.
- End-of-day. Did the floor hit today's expected output?
What to do when something's off
The dashboard surfaces problems but doesn't solve them. When a KPI flashes red:
- Overdue Orders? Open the order. Look at the Batch plan. Run the simulator with current capacity. Decide whether to add capacity, push the date, or split work to another supplier.
- Overdue Batches? Open the Batch. Look at the current operation. Check the Operation Ledger — when did work last move? Often the answer is "a Batch is stuck at a handoff" and a five-minute supervisor conversation unsticks it.
- Output trending down? Cross-check against the unit load dashboard — is one unit dropping off? Or is the dip general?
Image: The Production Overview dashboard with KPIs across the top, trend chart in the middle, and a heat-map below.
The Overview is a starting point, not an endpoint. It tells you where to look; the doctype pages tell you what to do.