Manufacturing

Bold BI brings production, operations, and cost data into a single customizable dashboard so teams can monitor daily performance and spot long-term trends that drive improvement.

Production Monitoring dashboard displaying output trends and machine utilization metrics.

Production Monitoring Dashboard

Track production costs, equipment availability, rework figures, and more

Why Manufacturing Teams Choose Bold BI

Manufacturing data is often spread across MES, ERP, machine logs, quality systems, and spreadsheets thus making it hard to see what’s really happening across operations.

Bold BI solves this by delivering:

  • Centralized manufacturing visibility: Monitor production, equipment, quality, and costs from a single source of truth.
  • Real-time operational insights: Track live production metrics and equipment status without manual reporting.
  • Cost & efficiency control: Identify high rework rates, downtime losses, and labor cost inefficiencies early.
  • Trend-based decision-making: Analyze historical patterns to improve planning, forecasting, and capacity utilization.
  • Secure & scalable analytics: Role-based access with cloud or self-hosted deployment options.

What You’ll Track

  1. Production performance: Track daily production output, throughput, and line-level performance.
  2. Equipment status & downtime: Monitor machine uptime, downtime events, and recurring equipment issues.
  3. Quality & rework metrics: Analyze rework levels, defect rates, and quality trends across shifts or lines.
  4. Cost & labor analysis: Track labor costs, operational expenses, and cost trends over months or years.

Bold BI for Manufacturing – Common Metrics

With fully customizable manufacturing dashboards, teams can track KPIs such as:

  • Production volume and throughput
  • Equipment uptime and downtime
  • Rework, scrap, and defect rates
  • Labor and operational costs
  • Production efficiency and yield
  • Shift, line, and plant-level performance
  • Long-term cost and productivity trends

Dashboards can be tailored for plant managers, operations teams, quality managers, finance teams, and executives.

How It Works (Quick Setup)

  • Connect data from ERP, MES, machine sensors, CRM, Excel, SQL, or Web APIs.
  • Use pre-built manufacturing dashboard templates or build custom dashboards.
  • Blend production, quality, equipment, and cost data.
  • Share dashboards securely with operations and leadership teams.
  • Set alerts for downtime spikes, quality issues, or cost overruns.
Trusted & recognized

Analytics that wins awards and users.

Recognized by G2, TrustRadius and Visual Studio Magazine for delivering standout performance and value.

I appreciate Bold BI for making it easier to provide reporting for our customers, allowing both our analysts and customers to easily build and publish reports. The ability to build dashboards and modify queries for specific outcomes is very user-friendly. I value the mobile readiness of the app and its integration capabilities with API structures. The addition of AI features is impressive. The economic pricing model and the effective partnership, which includes consistent and helpful support, make it an invaluable tool for our OEM model.

Ravi S.

The support from Bold is unmatched. They do not charge extra for support and it is excellent anyway. All our tickets and questions are quickly answered with authoritative and precise guidance. This is important at the product is complex, powerful and mature. To get the most out of the tool, the level of support they provide is essential.

Murph M.

It was easy to implement data visualizations into our product. The standard widgets allowed us to build professional looking dashboards, and a robust API provided excellent control of the development and runtime process from within our application.

Scott Y.

RECOGNITION

Users Love Us

Visual Studio Reader's Choice - 2025

Leader - Fall 2025

High Performer - Fall 2025 EMEA

Regional Leader - Fall 2025 AMERICAS

TrustRadius Tech Cares

Capterra - 4.9/5

G2- 4.3/5

GetApp - 4.9/5

Software Advice - 4.4/5

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Bold BI supports near real-time updates, allowing teams to monitor live production and equipment performance.
Absolutely. Dashboards can be filtered and drilled down by plant, production line, shift, or machine.
By tracking downtime frequency, duration, and root causes, teams can identify patterns and take preventive action.
Yes. Bold BI allows analysis of labor and operational costs over months or years to support strategic planning.
Yes. Bold BI includes enterprise-grade security with RLS, SSO, and RBAC, and token authentication
Yes. Dashboards can be tailored for operators, managers, quality teams, and executives with role-based access.
Ready to Get Started?

Start your 30-day free trial instantly

Easy integration, AI-Powered Dashboards and 24x5 real-time support.

Start Your Free Trial