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Essence ERP
01Add-on module

Production Dashboard

In one line
The shop floor on a screen, live
Capabilities
6, shipped together
Installs onto
A running ERPNext instance

What a plant manager needs is in the ERP somewhere and almost never available quickly.

By the time it reaches a weekly report, the shift it describes is over. This puts it live on a desk, in a hand, or on a wall above the line, while the people watching can still fix it.

Essence ERP manufacturing dashboard showing work order status, machine utilisation and production output
Production control tower — work orders, utilisation and output against plan
02Capability

What the module actually does

Live work orders, machine utilisation and OEE, operator productivity, quality trends and shortage alerts — desk, tablet or floor display.

  1. 01

    Live work order status

    Every work order, job card and operation, across every line: running, completed, delayed, quality hold.

  2. 02

    Machine utilisation and OEE

    Runtime, idle time and reason-coded downtime, with full OEE — availability, performance, quality — per machine and per line.

  3. 03

    Operator productivity

    Operation-wise time capture by operator and shift, against standard. It is how training needs become visible.

  4. 04

    Quality trends

    Inspection results with defect classification and Pareto analysis, so corrective effort goes where the losses are.

  5. 05

    Plan versus actual

    Gantt-style schedule against actual output, with live raw material, work-in-progress and finished goods positions, alerting before a shortage stops a line.

  6. 06

    KPIs and floor displays

    Plant-specific metrics with thresholds and alerts, built without code. Floor television layouts rotate and cache, so a network blip never blanks the screen.

03Outcomes

What changes once it is in

Ranges reported by clients running it, not laboratory figures. Where you land depends mostly on where you are starting from.

  • Throughput up around 25% on real-time visibility
  • Downtime down around 40% with reason tracking and preventive scheduling
  • On-time delivery from roughly 75% to 95%
  • Quality defects down around 35% through trend analysis
  • Labour utilisation from roughly 65% to 85%
  • Excel shift reporting eliminated
04Deployed in

Where it earns its place

The operations this module was built around. If yours is not on the list, it is worth fifteen minutes to find out why.

  • 01

    Manufacturing units tracking shop floor performance

  • 02

    Production managers overseeing several plants

  • 03

    Quality teams analysing defect patterns

  • 04

    Plant heads reviewing daily operational KPIs

  • 05

    Continuous improvement and lean teams

  • 06

    Contract manufacturers reporting to customers

05Technical fit

Reads ERP Manufacturing, Quality Inspection, Stock and Operations. Optional IoT and machine capture over Modbus or OPC-UA.

Installed on your instance or on ours, from a staging copy first, with the upgrade path and the way back written down before anything touches live.

Ask about your setup

See Production Dashboard running on your own data

We put the module on a staging copy of your instance and walk your team through it on records they recognise. If it is the wrong answer for you, we will say so on that call.