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

Peakboard fills the SQCDP board automatically with real-time data from machines and ERP, so the daily shop floor meeting runs on actual numbers instead of estimates – and actions go into the system by touch, not onto a sticky note. That is the digital shop floor meeting: no whiteboard nobody maintains, no arguing over stale KPIs, no action that quietly disappears.

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.

From seeing to acting: capturing actions directly at the board

An SQCDP board shows what went wrong. The decisive question is: what happens next? In many plants, the meeting ends with a verbal agreement that nobody writes down – and at the next huddle it is unclear whether the action was taken.

Peakboard’s Apexboard solves this with an integrated continuous improvement board. Actions are captured directly on the touchscreen: title, owner, due date, priority. Every open action stays visible until it is closed. That creates accountability without an additional system and without an email chain.

The principle follows the PDCA cycle: the board makes problems visible (Check), the improvement board makes the response binding (Act) – and at the next meeting the team starts with a clear picture of what is still open. This turns the daily huddle from a status meeting into a genuine steering tool.

Analogue 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. For a step-by-step rollout guide, see 10 steps to digital shop floor management.