Vectis Works Describe one line to us

A board your crew can read from across the aisle

We mount a screen at the line that shows whether this hour is ahead or behind and whether the machine is running, fed straight from the machines. Your supervisors and the next shift work from those same numbers.

Sample line board: this hour at 131 against a target of 120 so far, machine running, and hour by hour counts against target for the shift. LINE 4 · PRESS CELL SECOND SHIFT SAMPLE THIS HOUR · 6 PM 131 target so far 120 +11 AHEAD RUNNING since 6:07 PM SHIFT SO FAR 726 of 720 planned HOUR BY HOUR 164 152 161 118 131 2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM 6 PM7 PM8 PM9 PM
Sample board with made-up numbers. Counts and running status come from the machine. Each hour's target comes from your own schedule and standards; the dashed mark shows it.

On the board

What the crew sees at the line

The board answers the questions people ask each other on the floor, in type big enough to read from a forklift lane. Nobody has to walk the line with a clipboard to tell them.

  1. Ahead or behind, this hour

    Parts made so far against what the hour calls for, with the gap as one plain number.

  2. Running or stopped

    The machine's state right now, and how long it has been that way.

  3. The shift so far

    Each finished hour next to its target, so a slow start and a strong recovery both show.

  4. Nothing to log in to

    The screen hangs on the wall and updates by itself. Operators keep their hands on the job.

At the desk

What the supervisor sees

The supervisor's view uses the same counts as the boards, laid out for the whole area. When a line falls behind, it is visible before anyone radios in, and the supervisor can walk over with the answer already half worked out.

  1. Every line on one screenCurrent hour, shift total and machine state for each line the supervisor covers.
  2. Stops as they happenWhen a machine stops, when it started again and how long it sat, without anyone writing it down.
  3. A reason on each stopThe supervisor or lead picks a reason from your plant's own list, so the stop has a story attached.
  4. The hour that went wrongHour-by-hour history for the shift, so the conversation starts from what happened, not from memory.

Shift change

What carries over to the next shift

Counts, stops and notes land on one handoff view. The incoming supervisor reads where each line stands and what the last crew ran into, instead of piecing it together from a whiteboard and a hallway chat.

First shift to second shiftSample
LineCountStopsNote from the floor
Line 2 · Brake1,284 of 1,3002 stops, 18 minChanged tooling at 11:40. First parts after the change checked good.
Line 4 · Press cell1,190 of 1,2804 stops, 41 minFeeder jammed twice after lunch. Maintenance looked at it; watch the first hour.
Line 6 · Weld612 of 6001 stop, 6 minWire spool swapped at 1:15. Nothing open.

Counts and stops fill themselves in from the machines. The notes are the one thing people type, and they stay attached to the shift they describe.

Where the numbers come from

Machine facts on one side, your plan on the other

A board is only trusted when people know where each figure comes from. We keep the two sources separate and say which is which.

From the machines

  1. Part counts, read from the controls the machine already has.
  2. Running and stopped status, with the time each stop began and ended.
  3. Cycle signals where the equipment exposes them.

From your plant

  1. Hourly and shift targets, taken from your schedule and your standards for each part.
  2. The shift calendar: start and end times, breaks and planned downtime.
  3. Stop reasons and handoff notes, entered by your own people.

The machines can tell us what was made and when. They cannot tell us what should have been made; that part comes from the plan you already run the floor by.

Ownership

Read-only, and yours to keep

  1. We only read

    The connection to your machines is read-only. There is no path back to the controls, and your own team can check that for themselves.

  2. You own what we build

    The boards, the code behind them and the data stay in your systems. There is no licence to renew to keep the screens on.

  3. Support if you want it

    We can hand it over and step away, or stay on to add lines and views. That choice is yours.

Beyond the line board

The other work Vectis does

Line boards are often where a plant starts. The same connection to the machines supports larger pieces of work.

  1. A full plant dashboard

    Uptime, downtime by reason, run rates, scrap where it is recorded, and OEE, across the whole plant and over time.

  2. Spreadsheets rebuilt as systems

    The workbook one person keeps alive, turned into a proper tool the whole team can use without breaking it.

  3. Custom software

    Tools built around how your shop actually works, when nothing off the shelf fits the job.

  4. A structured data layer

    Tags named and organized with plant context, behind an API, so reports and future tools draw from one clean source.

Getting started

Start with one line

Tell us which line you would put a board on first, what runs there and what the crew asks about most. We will say plainly whether it is a good place to start.

Describe one line to us