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 By the time the answer arrives, the question has been replaced by a different one.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 usually a weekly spreadsheet that's out of date before it's distributed.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 system-wide OEE, active downtime alerts, and operational status across all facilities. The organization health view shows which plants are running, which have active DT (Downtime) calls, and where the current OEE trend is... in a single view that doesn't require drilling into individual assets.
Cross-Asset OEE Rollup
Aggregate OEE across all assets, lines, and plants into a single corporate-level metric. OEE rollup can be viewed at the facility level, the production cell level, or the plant level... with the ability to compare current period against prior periods without building a report.
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.

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

See which lines are making money and which ones aren't.

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