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Reading: If you are just getting started with analyzing your production speed then we recommend reading this article: Manufacturing Cycle Time: Key Metrics and Improvement Tips
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The production speed report helps you optimize your manufacturing process by identifying optimal production speeds for each product. By maintaining these targets, you can reduce quality variations, minimize equipment downtime, and enable accurate capacity planning - all leading to lower operational costs.
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Note: Production speed report is only available in the Professional and Enterprise package. To gain access, please contact your account executive or reach out to us at [email protected].
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Note: If you want to understand how the report works in detail, please refer to the technical overview section at the end of this page.
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The report is updated once per hour, so when product details have been updated in Settings and production data updated in Shift View, the change is not immediately visible in the report.
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Production speed data is represented in a histogram that visualizes the frequency of production speed for a specific product, allowing you to identify common operating speeds. The observed production speeds are segmented into ranges/bins and then grouped into bars to highlight the most frequent speeds.
Each vertical bar represents a specific speed range and its height shows how many times the product ran at those speeds. Taller bars mean that speed range occurred more frequently.
Target speed The target speed defined in the product's station-specific details.
Green bars Speeds that are faster than or equal to set target – the green areas of the Shift View.
Yellow bars Speeds that are lower than set target – the yellow occurrences of the Shift View.
Most frequent (Mode) The production speed that occurred most often in the dataset.
This visual pattern helps you:
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Note: While the tallest bar shows which speed range occurred most often, the mode shows the exact speed that appeared most frequently in your data. These two values might sometimes differ because the histogram groups speeds into ranges, while the mode looks at individual speed values.
For example: the tallest bar might show that production mostly ran between 90-95 units per minute, while the mode might show that 89 units per minute was the most common exact speed.
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