Manufacturing Dashboard
ERPNext v15's Manufacturing Dashboard offers an integrated dashboard to track key production statistics so that manufacturing managers and planners can take data-driven, real-time decisions. The dashboard uses ERP Next's robust reporting and visualization features to monitor work orders, job cards, inspections, and efficiency of operations with ease.
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The dashboard also features Number Cards, consisting of shortcut summaries of essential manufacturing KPIs that are simpler to utilize in order to analyze production, to sense the existence of backlogs and to ensure certain prompt action in terms of accomplishment of various tasks.
Number Cards
Number Cards are knowledge-providing widgets on the ERPNext dashboard that display aggregated numeric values for individual data points. They are updated in real-time or near real-time and display a view without having to navigate to individual reports.
These cards can be completely customized, and customers can design or edit them with filters, document types, and date ranges based on their business requirements.
1. Monthly Total Work Order: The card shows the number of Work Orders that are in Open, In Progress, or Completed status in the last 30 days (from the current system date).
- It aids in monitoring recent production workload quantity.
- Helps detect production trends and bottlenecks.
- Gives early insights into active manufacturing pipelines, allowing planners to foresee resource requirements.
Use Case Example: When 20 new Work Orders were created and 10 of them are in progress, while 5 have been completed, this card will show the total count as 35.
2. Monthly Completed Work Order: Shows the total number of all the Work Orders that have attained Completed status over the last 30 days.
- Suggests production levels and working operations.
- Facilitates comparison of actual completions to planned schedules.
- Enables managers to judge to what extent planned manufacturing has been effectively completed this month.
Use Case Example: In case you created 50 orders for the month and 40 are completed, this card provides an instant view of 80% completion.
3. Ongoing Job Card: Denotes the total amount of Job Cards that are active i.e. not on Completed status.
It applies to all Job Cards that are in the status of Pending, Started or Paused. Convenient when the shift leads and supervisors want to control shop floor operations on a daily basis. * Practical in identifying delay in particular operations and giving clarity of resource utilization.
More Detail: Linking a click of this card can link to a filtered list view of all active job cards, providing the capability for tracking each operation per workstation or per staff member.
4. Monthly Quality Inspection: This shows the number of Records of Quality Inspections that have to be registered within the last 30 days whether it is on the incoming raw materials, the in-process goods (through Job Cards) or the processed product.
- Facilitates monitoring of quality assurance procedures done over time.
- Guarantees inspection procedures compliance and regulatory compliance.
- Facilitates identification of patterns or trends of recurring issues across specific product lines. Enhanced Functionality in v15: This measurement also allows filter-based customization by Inspection Type (Incoming, In-Process, Final) to provide more detailed views. You can drill down on failed inspections or see inspection templates employed.
Dashboard
Upon opening the Manufacturing module in ERPNext v15, you are greeted by a set of predefined graphical reports. These graphs provide an instant overview of important production metrics and facilitate improved decision-making using real-time data insights.
These reports are totally customizable through ERP Next’s dashboard utilities. Users can:
- Hide/show particular charts
- Set time intervals (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly)
- Filter by particular conditions such as company, warehouse, item group, or work order status
- Drill down into particular data points for detail views
Produced Quantity
The bar or line chart provides visual representation of the total quantity produced by the submitted Work Orders over the time.
- Default View: Trend for the last 12 months.
- Custom Views: Users can toggle between Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly to change granularity.
- Data Source: Based on the finished quantity in Work Orders.
- Filtering Options: Users can filter by Item, Item Group, Company, or Production Line to examine certain segments.
Use Case: It helps the production managers to watch the overall performance of the production, understand seasonality trends, stay with the forecasted demand.
Completed Operation
The graph shows the number of operations that have been executed indicated on Job Cards with respect to the selected period.
- Default View: Last year's quarterly data.
- Alternate Views: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly options can be seen through the chart toolbar.
- Data Points: Each operation is only counted once when its status is set as Completed within the corresponding Job Card. Granular Analysis: Filtering abilities are made available such that the results of operation completions are realized on a per Workstation/Per Operation Type/Per Employee basis.
Use Case The best use case is tracking throughput of the shop floor and locating possible slow locations or bottlenecks of the process.
Work Order Analysis
This pie or donut chart reflects the detail of status distribution of the Work Orders within the selected time period.
- Default: Displays Work Orders by Not Started, In Process, Stopped, and Completed statuses for the last 12 months.
- Custom Filters: The date range can be modified, filter by Item Group, Production Plan, Company, or Work Order Type.
- Real-Time Insights: The chart is updated with the latest document status status providing a live view of production and backlog.
- Interactive: Redirecting to the relevant filtered Work Order list view when any segment is clicked, by means of a click-on-a-segment dynamic action.
Note: Useful to production planners and departmental managers in tracking Work Order advancement, catching up on delays beforehand, and optimally balancing production burdens.
Quality inspection analysis
This donut chart provides the summary of the number of Quality Inspections that have been taken in a selected time range, broken in its status:
- Accepted
- Rejected
Default View: displays the data on the previous 12 months User Determined Date Range: The user may vary the date range by activating the Filter button Data Source: Derived out of submitted Quality Inspection reports Additional Filters: Filters can be performed according to Item Code, Inspection Type (Incoming, In-Process, Final), or Template subset
Use Case: Helps quality managers to track the level of rejected inspection, identify patterns of quality issues and to implement improvements into the continuous process of improvement.
Pending Work Orders
This bar chart gives visibility into the Work Orders that are pending, broken down by aging days:
- The aging is computed as the number of days from the current date to either the Planned Start Date or Actual Start Date, whichever is available.
- Each bar is a bucket of pending work orders, categorized by aging duration ranges (e.g., 0–7 days, 8–14 days, etc.).
Use Case: A major utility would be in the search of the delayed or stuck production orders to enable the production managers to take early corrective measures on the production and ensure the operations are carried out on schedule.
Last Month Downtime Analysis
The following chart is a summary of the machine down time recorded last month, in minutes:
- According to the entries of downtime recorded in Job Cards under the Downtime Details.
- Machines are ranked by cumulative down-time period.
- Reason for downtime (e.g., maintenance, breakdown, lack of raw materials) may also be broken down with further filters.
Use Case: Allows production managers and maintenance teams to identify ineffective machines, determine why machines are down so frequently and to schedule preventive maintenance.
Work Order Quantity Analysis
This chart displays the total production quantities tracked through Work Orders every month over the last year, divided into:
- Pending Quantity – quantity yet to be produced
- Finished Quantity – already manufactured quantity
Chart Type: Stacked bar chart for easy comparison Data Source: From Work Orders that have been submitted and their status Filters Available: Item Group, Company, Manufacturing Plan
Use Case: Good in monitoring the monthly change trend of output, identifying shortages in the planned and actual output, and the future capacity planning.
Job Card Analysis
This chart plots the monthly trend of Job Cards over the last year, by their status:
- Pending – Job Cards that are yet to be completed
- Completed – Job Cards completed
- Chart Type: Stacked bar or line chart
- Additional Filters: Operation, Workstation, Employee, Company
Use Case: Assists shop floor planners and supervisors in tracking operational throughput, locating delays in individual operations, and increasing workforce utilization.