Equipment Hub
The Equipment Hub is the single entry page for the operational view of your plant: KPIs, work-center status, a capacity heatmap, alerts, and today's preventive-maintenance schedule all in one place. The page updates live as conditions change on the floor — no need to refresh.
When to use it
- Plant manager / shift lead — live status of every work center and critical asset, on one screen.
- Operator on a floor tablet — a quick glance at what's running, what's down, and what needs attention.
- Maintenance lead — an at-a-glance view of overdue preventive maintenance, low-stock spare parts, and active breakdowns.
What you see
The KPI strip
| KPI | What it means |
|---|---|
| Utilization | Today's average utilization across the work centers you've flagged as critical for capacity tracking, from the most recent snapshot. |
| OEE | Today's planning OEE target, averaged and weighted by load. This is the target you've set for planning, not a measured figure from actual production data. |
| Open Maintenance | How many maintenance events are currently scheduled or in progress. |
| Spare Parts Low | How many items flagged as spare parts have fallen to or below their safety stock level. |
| Overdue PMs | How many active preventive-maintenance schedules are past their due date. |
| WCs at Risk | How many work centers are at or above 100% utilization in today's snapshot. |
A tile shows a dash when there's no data yet — no snapshot has been computed, or the relevant module isn't enabled for your company.
The equipment status board
A grid of work centers and their child assets, color-coded by runtime status:
- 🟢 Running — currently producing
- 🟡 Setup — changeover or warm-up
- ⚪ Idle — operational but not producing
- 🔵 Maintenance — taken down for planned maintenance
- 🔴 Down — unplanned downtime
A work center's card shows the worst status among its critical child assets — one critical asset going Down brings the whole work-center card to Down. An issue on a non-critical asset doesn't affect the card.
Two view modes are available, and your choice is remembered:
- Leaf view — a flat grid of every individual asset. Best for shallow equipment hierarchies.
- Rollup view — top-level assets only, with a badge showing how many descendants are in a non-normal state when something underneath isn't Running.
When an asset's status changes, its chip briefly pulses in the new color so the change is easy to spot from across the room.
The capacity heatmap
A 7-day grid across your work centers. Each cell is colored by utilization:
- Green: under 85%
- Lime: 85–99%
- Yellow: 100–119%
- Red: 120% or more
A cell with material-shortage risk gets a diagonal-stripe overlay. Hovering shows the exact utilization, the risk level, and the specific item causing a bottleneck, if any.
Click a cell to drill into the Capacity Planner for that work center on that day.
The alerts feed
A live feed of what's changed. Each entry shows a severity (info, warning, or critical), a type, and a one-line message — for example, a preventive-maintenance task approaching or past its due date, a spare part dropping below safety stock, a work center newly overloaded, a work center or asset's status changing, or a work order's expected completion date slipping.
The feed removes duplicates and always shows the newest first. Click an entry to open the record it's about.
Today's preventive-maintenance schedule
A list of preventive-maintenance tasks due within the next 7 days. Each row has a one-click Mark Done, which opens a small form for optional notes and immediately records the maintenance as complete, advancing the schedule to its next due date. See Preventive Maintenance.
How the widgets are gated
| Widget | Requires |
|---|---|
| Hub shell, KPIs, status board, alerts | The Equipment module, and the view-equipment permission |
| Capacity heatmap | The Capacity module, and the view-capacity permission |
| Today's PM schedule | The Maintenance module, and the view-maintenance permission |
If a module isn't enabled for your company, its widget shows an "Enable this module" card instead of disappearing — so an admin can see what's available to turn on.
Refresh behavior
The page loads its full snapshot when you open it, refreshes automatically every minute in the background, and also updates live as changes happen elsewhere. If part of the data fails to load, only the affected widgets show an empty state — the rest of the page still works.
Common problems
KPIs all show a dash. No capacity snapshot has been computed yet. Use the Capacity Planner's Recompute button on at least one work center, or wait for the next scheduled recompute.
The status board is empty. No assets have been linked to a work center yet. See Asset Management → Link to a Work Center.
The capacity heatmap says "no snapshot." Same cause as the KPIs — recompute capacity for at least one work center.
No alerts ever appear. Either the live connection has dropped (try refreshing the page), or nothing has happened yet that would generate an alert.
An "Enable Capacity" card shows instead of the heatmap. The Capacity module isn't turned on for your company. See Permissions.
Related
- Capacity Planner — drill into per-work-center capacity detail
- Asset Management — set up the assets that appear on the status board
- Preventive Maintenance — create the plans that drive the alert feed