The bottom line: The question a VP of Operations asks is not "what was Press 4's OEE at 2pm?" It's "which lines are making money and which are bleeding it?" ProAlert's Executive Dashboard answers that question in one view, without requiring the executive to navigate per-asset data or wait for the analyst's Thursday morning report.

Why Executives Don't Use Most Manufacturing Dashboards

  • Asset-level dashboards require too much context to interpret.
    A dashboard showing OEE for each of 40 assets, each requiring context about what product was running, what shift, what the target was, and what the trend is... creates decision paralysis, not decision clarity. Executives need the rollup, not the drill-down. Drill-down is for the reliability engineer who already knows what to look for.
  • Profitability data requires a finance team export.
    Asset operating cost, maintenance cost, and revenue-per-unit data typically live in an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or finance system that doesn't connect to the OEE platform. Answering "is Line 3 profitable?" requires a finance analyst to pull data from two systems and build a model. By the time the answer arrives, the question has been replaced by a different one.
  • Multi-plant visibility requires multiple logins.
    A corporate VP overseeing three plants typically needs three separate logins to three separate systems to see the same OEE and maintenance data. Cross-plant comparison requires a manual compilation... usually a weekly spreadsheet that's out of date before it's distributed.
  • Sensitive profitability data visible to all users is a governance problem.
    Revenue per asset, cost per unit, and asset profitability data should not be visible to operators and technicians navigating the same dashboard as plant managers and executives. Without role-gating, either the profitability data gets removed from the system, or it becomes visible to everyone... neither of which is acceptable.

Executive Dashboard Views

Organization Health Dashboard
Top-level view of OEE, active downtime alerts, and operational status. It is scoped to a business resource and pushed live over its own channel, so an executive sees their plant or their cell rather than an average of everything. "Today" follows the shift-aligned working day rather than midnight, so a night shift crossing midnight lands on one day.
Schedule Attainment
Delivery performance against the plan the floor actually ran, in the place the on-time-delivery tile used to sit. The old tile was replaced because nothing in the system could honestly fill it, and a KPI the data cannot support is worse than no KPI.
Needs Attention and Tracked Anomalies
The items waiting on somebody, with elapsed timers ticking in the browser rather than refreshing on a schedule. An anomaly can be tracked, annotated, resolved, dismissed or untracked from the dashboard, so a pattern an executive spots does not depend on them remembering it next week.
Safety Streak
Days since the last recorded incident, drawn from the same safety incident register the floor logs into. Not a number somebody updates on a whiteboard.
Cross-Asset OEE Rollup
Aggregate OEE across all assets, lines, and plants into a single corporate-level metric, computed as a sum of actual over a sum of target rather than an average of averages, which is the arithmetic that quietly flatters a rollup. Viewable at the facility, cell or plant level, with current period against prior periods and no report to build.
Asset Profitability Dashboard
Revenue vs. cost analysis per asset: operating cost, maintenance cost, and revenue contribution side-by-side. Surfaces which lines are generating positive margin and which are consuming more in maintenance and downtime cost than they're contributing in production value. Profitability data is role-gated... visible to Executive role users only.
Role-Gated Access
Executive dashboards are visible only to users with the Executive or Plant Manager role assignment. Operators, technicians, and supervisors navigating the same ProAlert instance see the standard dashboard view without the profitability data or organization-level rollup. No separate login or separate instance required.
System Error Visibility
Application errors are persisted to the database and surfaced in the Executive Dashboard's system health section. Plant managers see if there are unresolved application errors affecting any facility without needing server log access... and the ProAlert support team can diagnose issues remotely from the same error records.
Plant manager view, desktop
ProAlert Organization Health dashboard scoped plant-wide for today, showing 78.6 percent OEE up 3.6 points with a seven-day trend line, 96 percent schedule attainment, a 2.6 minute average response time, zero safety incidents, six escalated calls in the Needs Attention panel with elapsed times and claimed responders, a top failure modes chart, and continuous improvement activity
The whole plant, one screen, no report request. OEE against its own seven-day trend, schedule attainment against plan, and how long people are waiting when something stops. The six calls in Needs Attention are live records with their own clocks running, two of them already claimed by name, and the line underneath confirms the other 26 assets are fine... which is the half of the answer most dashboards leave out.

Asset Profitability: The Question Most Platforms Can't Answer

Profitability per asset is calculated from data already in the ProAlert database... no external data source required. The calculation draws on asset cost fields, maintenance cost from CMMS work orders, production cycle counts, and revenue-per-unit configuration.

Data InputSourceDrives
Hourly operating cost Asset cost analysis field (configured in Admin) Operating cost per shift, per month, per year
Maintenance labor and parts cost CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) work orders (actual labor hours x rate + parts used x cost) Total maintenance spend per asset over any time period
Production output OEE cycle count data from EdgeSense or manual entry Units produced per period... the denominator for cost-per-unit calculations
Revenue per unit Asset configuration field or product-level configuration Revenue contribution per asset per period for profitability calculation
Downtime cost DT call duration x configured hourly lost-production cost Cost attributed to unplanned downtime events per asset
Plant manager view, 15 inch laptop
ProAlert asset profitability detail for a single assembly cell over one week: revenue, total cost, net profit and margin across the top, availability, performance, quality and OEE beneath them, a cost breakdown itemising raw materials, scrap loss, labor, runtime overhead, tooling, planned and unplanned maintenance, depreciation and insurance, and a daily profit and loss chart with OEE and performance plotted over it
One cell, one week, and where every dollar went. The margin at the top is the answer; the table underneath is the working. Raw materials, scrap loss, labour, runtime overhead and tooling are the variable side, maintenance is separated into planned and unplanned so a cell that is expensive to keep running looks different from one that is expensive to fix, and the depreciation and insurance of owning the machine are carried too. The chart plots the daily result against OEE and performance on the same axis, which is how you tell a bad week caused by the machine from a bad week caused by what it was making.

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