Shop floor analytics with Microsoft Power BI
Shopfloor data analysis is the key to operational excellence: Only those who know the current status of their production processes can intervene in good time and exploit optimization potential. With Peakboard and Microsoft Power BI, you combine real-time visualization on the shop floor with detailed analyses — without cumbersome IT projects.
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
Shopfloor Analytics: Your path to operational excellence
Operational excellence means continuously improving processes and reducing waste. For this to succeed, it takes Shopfloor transparency and well-founded data. This is exactly where Peakboard and Microsoft Power BI score points:
- Full control in real time: On the shop floor, dashboards on monitors or tablets provide direct insight into current processes.
- In-depth analyses & reports: Power BI gives you deep insights into production quality, delivery times, or cost drivers — specifically for management.
- Scalable & customizable: Whether you want to keep an eye on a single production line or compare multiple plants worldwide — the setup grows with your requirements.
Benefits of an integrated shop floor and BI solution
- Quick implementation
One Peakboard Box Plus Peakboard Hub are enough to connect your machines, sensors or manual data inputs. An operable shop floor visualization system will be available to you in a short time. - Flexible data access
Power BI accesses the central data pool directly. This enables self-service analyses in the specialist department, without lengthy IT processes. - Real-time and long-term perspective
While employees on the shop floor live data See, can you see detailed in Power BI Long-term trends examine. This gives you a complete picture of the current situation and future potential. - Increased motivation & personal responsibility
Show teams transparently how their performance affects key figures. This promotes commitment and enables faster action in the event of deviations.
This is how shop floor analysis works with Peakboard & Power BI
1. Data connection
Connect all production and machine data (e.g. Siemens S7, MQTT) to your Peakboard Box on. Automate or supplement them with manual BDE entries as required.
2. Data preparation & storage
Visualize important KPIs directly on the shop floor and collect raw data in Peakboard Hub, which serves as a central database.
3. Further processing in Power BI
Analyze the information collected — such as Failure rates, Turnaround times or energy consumption — in Microsoft Power BI, create reports and share them company-wide.
4. Continuous improvement
Use insights from your analyses to eliminate bottlenecks or adjust maintenance intervals. Thanks to flexible dashboards in Peakboard, all participants react in real time, which KVP (continuous improvement process) massively accelerated.
Operational excellence thanks to shop floor analytics
One Shopfloor analysis with Peakboard and Microsoft Power BI is the ideal way to avoid a lack of transparency and time-delayed data. Not only do you make your processes visible in real time, you can also analyze and optimize them in the long term. The result: less scrap, less downtime And a successful production management, which allows adjustments at any time.
With this integrated solution, you can Operational excellence faster than ever before — and take your company to a new level of efficiency and competitiveness.
Von Industrieexperten genutzt
um Abläufe clever zu vereinfachen.
“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. ”
The software
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