Visual factory on any TV: whatever your floor needs to see, live

Whatever matters to your factory, live. The boards customers ask for most: OEE, availability, performance and quality gauges for the current shift with the production graph; OEE for every day of the month, green or red against target; stop reasons ranked by minutes lost; the current shift next to the previous one; utilisation per line for one group of lines; every machine on one 24-hour timeline; and order progress against the plan with a green or red light for "fast enough". Add the floor plan with every workstation's status and room temperature, or a live quality split. You pick the workstations, the numbers and the layout for each screen.

No. OEE is one of the things a board can show, and some factories never put it on the wall. A packaging line shows pieces against the shift target, a canteen screen shows the monthly target for the whole team, a dairy shows the temperature of every cold room. The board shows the numbers your people act on.

Yes. Start from the library of ready-made views, built up from what other factories have asked for, such as a simple dashboard, a stop overview, a line board or the floor plan. If none fits, a view is designed around exactly the information you want on that screen; that is a small, quoted piece of work, and most of the boards on this page started that way. Each screen gets its own TV link.

Real-time OEE is availability × performance × quality calculated continuously from live machine signals, instead of entered after the shift. GlobalReader reads every machine through Scoutbox, so a Smart LiveView board can show each line's OEE as it moves, next to the output and the stop reasons. How OEE is calculated.

Reaction versus explanation. A report tells you what was lost; a live board shows the loss while there is still shift left to recover it. A machine that stops at 10:00 turns red on the board at 10:00, not in a spreadsheet after lunch. What an OEE dashboard should show each role is covered in our guide.

The operator sees the line board: output against target, pace and the line's OEE, four or five live elements and no more. The shift lead sees the multi-line board with every line's OEE and the shift timeline. The manager sees the floor plan with every workstation's status. Each is a separate screen, and all three run on the same data.

Yes. Views are configurable, with one to six panes per window and any period, so one screen can show this shift live and yesterday's result next to it. Many factories put one board on the hall wall and one in the canteen, with the monthly target and progress for the whole team.

Yes. A board can list the orders from Planner with the due date, the days left and a progress bar of pieces done against planned, next to the live speed of the line on a speedometer and a green or red light: fast enough to meet the deadline, or not. One factory runs it across three lines that share the same orders.

Yes. One board shows the previous and the current shift side by side, each with its stops and its productivity line, and productivity, utilisation and OEE as the three headline figures. The incoming shift sees what it inherited; the outgoing one sees how it finished.

A screen. Smart LiveView runs as an app on any Android smart TV or Android device, and in a browser on any PC screen. There is no PC behind each display, no wiring and nothing new to integrate: it shows the data your machines already send through GlobalReader.

Yes. The board shows whatever GlobalReader monitors, including decades-old machines read through a Scoutbox with a photo-eye, inductive or current sensor. How Scoutbox reads a machine.

It is the visual half of one: machine status on a screen, the andon board without the board. Together with Call for Help, the operator's one-tap call to a foreman or mechanic by SMS or email, and automatic notifications when a machine has been stopped longer than a limit you set, it forms GlobalReader's virtual andon. What an andon system is.

Yes. The floor-plan view carries the readings of room sensors and turns a point red when one drifts out of range. That is how a dairy runs its cold chain on it: 21 locations, some at −50 °C, on one TV, with an SMS when a limit is crossed. Read the Tere Põlva story.

The board shows machines and targets, not people. Teams use it to see they are ahead of target and to prove it, and to raise a problem the moment it happens.

No. Smart LiveView shows production data from the machines, not video.

€13 per machine per month as an add-on to the GlobalReader Monitoring Core (€125 per machine per month, hardware included). The price does not change with the number of screens, and there are no tiers. On a floor GlobalReader already monitors, a new screen is live in minutes; a floor that is not monitored yet takes about 90 minutes per machine to connect.