Shopfloor Analytics (Power BI)

Benefits of an integrated shop floor and BI solution

The combination of Peakboard and Microsoft Power BI offers numerous advantages for production:

• Full control in real time: Dashboards on monitors or tablets provide immediate insight into all relevant shop floor processes.
• In-depth analyses & reports: Power BI provides detailed insights into production quality, delivery times, and cost drivers, ideal for well-founded management decisions.
• Scalability & adaptability: Regardless of whether a single production line is to be monitored or several plants worldwide are to be compared — the solution grows with the company's requirements.
• Quick implementation: With a Peakboard Box and Peakboard Hub, machines, sensors or manual data inputs can be quickly integrated, which enables rapid implementation.
• Flexible data access: Power BI enables self-service analyses directly in specialist departments, without complex IT processes.
• Real-time and long-term perspective: While employees see real-time data on the shop floor, Power BI can also analyze long-term trends. This provides a complete picture of the current situation and future potential.
• Increased motivation & personal responsibility: Transparent performance indicators strengthen teams' commitment and enable rapid action in the event of deviations.

This is how shop floor analysis works with Peakboard & Power BI

Peakboard and Microsoft Power BI enable seamless integration and analysis of production data in four easy steps:

1. Data connection: Connect all relevant production and machine data (e.g. from Siemens S7 or MQTT) to the Peakboard Box. Manual BDE inputs can be added as an option to complete data collection.
2. Data preparation & storage: Visualize important KPIs directly on the shop floor and store raw data in the Peakboard Hub, which acts as a central database.
3. Further processing in Power BI: Analyze the collected data, such as error rates, processing times, or energy consumption, in Microsoft Power BI. Create custom reports and share them across your organization.
4. Continuous improvement: Use the insights from the analyses to eliminate bottlenecks and optimize maintenance intervals. Thanks to flexible dashboards in Peakboard, all parties involved can react in real time, which significantly speeds up the continuous improvement process (KVP).

Why Peakboard is the ideal solution for shop floor analytics with BI tools

Peakboard offers a powerful and user-friendly solution for data connection and preparation that helps companies optimize their production processes:

• Easy and fast data connection: Peakboard provides an easy connection to various data sources such as machines, sensors and ERP systems (e.g. Siemens S7, MQTT, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics). This ensures that all relevant production data can be captured and visualized in real time, without complex IT integrations or expensive infrastructure setups.
• Seamless data preparation: Data from various sources is centralized and processed to prepare it for analysis and visualization. With Peakboard, companies can translate their data into understandable KPIs and dashboards — without any in-depth programming knowledge. In this way, data is made available to all parties involved.
• Centralized and secure data storage: All collected data is securely stored in the Peakboard Hub. The central database enables quick and easy further processing of data in business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau. This ensures that data is always available and easily accessible — and at the same time protects the solution against data loss or inconsistencies.
• Scalability and flexibility: Peakboard can be flexibly adapted to the growing requirements of a company. Regardless of whether it is a small production line or a complex production environment with several locations — Peakboard grows with you and offers a scalable solution for companies of all sizes.
• Real time data processing: By using MQTT as an IoT interface, data is transmitted in real time and immediately visualized. This makes it possible to react immediately to bottlenecks or deviations and enables proactive control of production processes.