Shop Floor Meeting & SQCDP Board: The Daily Huddle in Production

A shop floor meeting is the short, daily alignment right in production – most effective at a digital SQCDP board that shows in real time where the team stands. Instead of long meetings in the office, 10 to 15 minutes create clarity, responsibilities and concrete actions.

What is a shop floor meeting?

A shop floor meeting (also daily huddle or stand-up) is a short, regular meeting at the place of action – the Gemba. The team discusses the current status using a few KPIs, spots deviations immediately and derives actions on the spot.

What is an SQCDP board?

SQCDP stands for Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and People – the five dimensions a shop floor board is structured around. Each dimension is rated with a traffic-light system, so it is visible at a glance where everything is in the green and where action is needed.

• S – Safety: e.g. days without an accident
• Q – Quality: e.g. scrap rate, first-pass yield
• C – Cost: e.g. productivity, output
• D – Delivery: e.g. on-time delivery in %
• P – People: e.g. attendance, qualification

How does a daily huddle run?

A good daily huddle lasts 10 to 15 minutes and follows a fixed agenda: safety first, then the KPIs per SQCDP dimension, deviations from the previous day, open actions and new to-dos with clear ownership. Discipline matters: short, standing, solution-oriented.

Which KPIs belong on the board?

Less is more: five to seven KPIs along SQCDP are usually enough. Each KPI gets a target value and a traffic light. This turns the board into a steering instrument rather than a wall of data.

Analog or digital?

Classic whiteboards have to be maintained by hand and are rarely up to date. Peakboard's Apexboard fills the SQCDP board automatically with real-time data from machines and ERP, and threshold breaches trigger an escalation directly via an Andon board. The shop floor meeting is a building block of overarching digital shop floor management.