The production TV board: every order’s progress, the load on each work centre, what’s late
Manufacturing → Floor → Production TV (or /app/manufacturing/tv) fills a wall screen with every open order’s steps and where each one is, who is on what, the hours queued on each work centre, and the orders past their due date. It refreshes itself and shows no rates or costs.
Where it is
- Production TV — Full screen, for a TV in the shop; refreshes every 15 seconds
- Manufacturing → Floor — The button to open the board
- Manufacturing → Schedule — Change the order the steps run in
Settings for this
- Settings → Workshop → Work Centres — The load panel is one bar per work centre
Open Manufacturing → Floor → Production TV on the screen that faces the shop, and press Full screen. The board keeps the screen awake, scales to the panel and refreshes itself every 15 seconds; it is a different board from the workshop's Live floor, built for orders and steps rather than jobs and bays.
Across the top
Orders in work, steps running now and the people on them, steps finished today, orders due in the next seven days, orders past due, and the standard hours still queued across every work centre.
Orders
One row per open order: its number, product and quantity, units finished, and its steps as a strip in routing order, green when through, pulsing when someone is on it, grey when it is waiting on an earlier step or on outside work. The step it is on is named with who is on it and how far through the run they are. Orders with someone on them come first, then late ones, then the Schedule board's order.
Load per work centre
One bar per work centre: how many steps are queued there, how many are running, the standard hours still to run, and how many of those steps belong to orders already late. The longest queue is the full bar; the others are drawn against it. There are no rates on this board, so anyone who can see manufacturing can put it on the wall.
Late
Open orders past their due date, the most overdue first, with the days late and how much is finished. A draft that is already late shows too: it has not even been released.
If something's not right
- An order isn't on the board. Only released and in-progress orders have steps on the floor. Release it from Orders.
- A step shows as running but nobody is on it. Someone left a timer going; the floor terminal's Pause or the workshop's time review stops it.
- The load looks wrong. It is the routing's standard minutes for the units not yet through each step, so a step with no time on the routing adds nothing.