The Pitchboard displays production performance for a selected area, line, and shift. It includes week-to-date, shift, daily, and pitch-by-pitch views of production actuals, products, and overall metrics.
You can open the Pitchboard from the Operator Portal or from the Production menu. After opening the page, select the Area, Line, and Shift you want to review.
The metrics shown on the Pitchboard depend on the Production settings enabled for your site.
The first section covers the Week to Date metrics for the entire line (all shifts). Beneath that you'll see the Weekly Shift Metric Totals; followed by the Daily Shift Metrics.
Demand: How much should be produced.
Actual: How much was produced.
Pace: Actual - Demand
Availability %: This is the Availability for the time frame. The availability metric uses planned production minutes in the calculation.
OEE %: Overall Equipment Effectiveness. This is the OEE for the time frame.
PEFF %: Production Efficiency. This is a ration of Actual / Demand.
TEFF %: Theoretical Efficiency.
Performance (PPP) %: Performance Per Part.
TPU: Time Per Unit
NPM: Non-Productive Minutes
Labor Efficiency: This is a way to measure the efficiency of operators. This is calculated using the formula: Earned Minutes / Available Minutes.
Scrap %: This is a percentage of Scrap to all parts produced: Scrap/(Actual + Scrap)
Takt Time: The rate needed to meet customer demand.
Run Rate: The actual rate at which the line is running: (Planned Production Time - Downtime) / (Actual + Scrap)
Past Due: The number of pitches a given line is past due or ahead.
Quality %: Similar to Scrap, this is the percentage of good parts to all parts: Actual/(Actual+Scrap)
PPMH: Parts Produced per Man Hour
PPH: Parts Produced per Hour
E-Hrs: Earned Hours
Planned Production Minutes: This is a sum of the pitch planned production minutes during the time frame. This does not include planned non-production minutes.
Down Minutes: This is a sum of the pitch downtime minutes during the time frame. Pitch downtime minutes cannot be larger than the total number of minutes in the pitch. Pitch downtime can be larger than the Production Minutes metric since the Production Minutes does not count non-production minutes. Note: OA on this page uses Production Downtime Minutes. Production Downtime Minutes are not viewable on this page. This is the sum of downtime minutes excluding planned non-production minutes. For example, if a 60 minute pitch has 20 minutes planned non-production, and 40 minutes planned production, and a "down" dispatch is open for the entire duration of the pitch, only 40 minutes are counted toward production downtime. Production Downtime Minutes is used for the Availability % calculation.
Operator Count: This is the average number of operators on a line during the time frame. The shift total operator count is calculated using the total clock in time from the shift, and divide that by the total available time (active pitches only). If operators are clocked in during inactive pitches (lunch, breaks) the total operator count will be higher than you'd expect.>
Below the overall metrics, the page lists individual pitches with their metrics and totals. It also includes links to the Weekly Summary, Calendar, Schedule, and Operator Portal.
Note: For more information about metric calculations, see the Production metrics article.