Shop floor analytics with Microsoft Power BI
Shop floor analytics combines real-time visualisation right on the shop floor with the deep analysis of Microsoft Power BI – on one data foundation. With Peakboard, you uncover optimisation potential, make well-founded decisions and move production closer to operational excellence – with no programming required.
More transparency and faster decisions
With Peakboard and Power BI, you can analyze your shop floor data more efficiently than ever. Transparent key figures enable faster decisions and open the way for long-term process optimization — without complicated IT projects.
Challenge
- Lack of transparency of shop floor data
- Delayed or incomplete information
- High effort for subsequent data analysis
Solution with Peakboard
- Central collection and storage of all shop floor data
- Intuitive visualization and flexible dashboards for Power BI
- Faster insights through automated data preparation
Result
- Comprehensive insight into historical shop floor data
- Well-founded decisions based on meaningful analyses
- Responding flexibly to process changes and new requirements
Fully adaptable to your needs
Shop Floor Management
As flexible as your processes.
With Peakboard, you create a centralized and flexible solution for your daily shop floor communication – perfectly tailored to your individual workflows.
- Standardised SQDC reports for a quick overview of the regular meeting
- Define your own key figures – manually or automatically
- Capture, edit, and track measures — structured and team-oriented
- Assign responsibilities with notifications via email, MS Teams, or Slack
- Adjust menu structure and content to fit your department’s needs
- Store historical data and analyze it with Power BI, QlikView, or Tableau
Discover how flexible shop floor management can be with Peakboard
All of your data.
One platform.
Peakboard connects your systems and brings all data to one platform — for visualization, automation and individual applications.
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Create your shop floor analytics dashboard to visualize your production data with Power BI and gain deep insights. Combine the power of Peakboard and Power BI to monitor all important KPIs in real time and make well-founded decisions — without much IT effort
Operational excellence means continuously improving production processes and reducing waste. To achieve this, shop floor transparency and well-founded data are essential. This is exactly where the integration of Peakboard and Microsoft Power BI comes into play, which enables companies to access all relevant data in real time and analyze it in depth. The result is continuous optimization of production processes and a clear increase in efficiency.
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.
- 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 and sensors can be quickly integrated.
- Flexible data access: Power BI enables self-service analyses directly in specialist departments.
- 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 is how shop floor analysis works with Peakboard & Power BI
- Data connection: Connect all relevant production and machine data to the Peakboard Box.
- Data preparation & storage: Visualize important KPIs directly on the shop floor and store raw data in the Peakboard Hub.
- Further processing in Power BI: Analyze the collected data in Microsoft Power BI and create custom reports.
- Continuous improvement: Use the insights from the analyses to eliminate bottlenecks and optimize maintenance intervals.
Why Peakboard is the ideal solution for shop floor analytics with BI tools
- Easy and fast data connection: Peakboard provides an easy connection to various data sources such as machines, sensors and ERP systems.
- Seamless data preparation: Data from various sources is centralized and processed without any in-depth programming knowledge.
- Centralized and secure data storage: All collected data is securely stored in the Peakboard Hub.
- Scalability and flexibility: Peakboard can be flexibly adapted to the growing requirements of a company.
- Real time data processing: Data is transmitted in real time and immediately visualized.
Used by industry experts
to cleverly simplify processes.
“In the past, it was not only impossible to see the status of all machines at a glance, but it was also cumbersome to make adjustments to the displays. Today, information from multiple systems can be linked together and displayed on a single dashboard. This can be adjusted by us independently and easily, which significantly increases flexibility. ”
Save time with our templates
No time for long designs? No problem: Use one of the many ready-made templates for dashboards and applications — e.g. for production monitoring, warehouse management or quality assurance. Pick a template, customize it, and you're done.
