Getting started
Welcome to Data Board — an engineering delivery + capacity workspace for plant and mechatronics teams.
Built for eng/ops teams (roughly 10–80 people) who juggle too many parallel jobs and need a clearer picture of who’s on what and what’s left.
Demo only. New registrations are paused. Do not enter real or personal data.
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Based in Switzerland.
1. Open the demo
- Open View demo.
- Use the demo workspace only. Do not enter real business data or personal data.
- Demo data may be deleted at any time.
2. Set up your first workspace
Keep the first setup small so the team actually uses it.
- Name the workspace after the plant, program, or eng group (e.g. “Assembly cell projects”, “Mechatronics eng”).
- Add 2–5 people who live in the parallel-job mess every day (project leads, planners, shop-floor eng leads) — not the whole company on day one.
- Agree on one active program you’ll track together for the first two weeks.
3. Capture work that is already running
Don’t start with a perfect process. Start with reality.
- Add the jobs / projects that are already in flight.
- For each: owner, status, and a rough capacity signal (are we overloaded / ok / have room?).
- Link related tasks only where it reduces status chase — skip ceremony.
Goal: one shared board instead of Slack threads + spreadsheets + “who’s on what?”.
4. Run the weekly rhythm
A simple loop beats a complex system:
- Monday (or shift start): review capacity vs committed work.
- Mid-week: update blockers and ownership — no status theatre.
- End of week: what finished, what slipped, what we should not take next.
If something isn’t updated, treat that as a signal — not a failure of the tool.
5. Add the rest of the team
When the core group trusts the board:
- Add the remaining eng/ops who touch delivery or capacity decisions.
- Keep one source of truth: if it’s not on the board, it isn’t planned capacity.
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