Digitise one decision on the factory floor
Your factory decides output, quality and delivery from spreadsheets filled in at the end of each shift. You are asked to pick one decision and make it data-driven, without buying a new system first.
Who this is for: IT and systems staff, industrial engineers, production and quality managers.
What you produce: A digitisation plan: the decision, the data it needs, where that data is created, the report or dashboard, and the governance around it.
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Task 1
Name the decision you are improving, who makes it, how often, and what it costs when it is made on stale data.
What a good answer contains: A good answer picks a frequent, consequential decision — line balancing during the shift, defect escalation, material release — and quantifies the cost of delay.
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Task 2
Map the data: what is needed, where it is created, who enters it and what makes the entry unreliable today.
What a good answer contains: A good answer follows data to its source on the floor and names the practical reason entries are wrong — timing, double handling, no feedback to the person entering it.
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Task 3
Design the report the decision maker sees, and state the action each figure triggers.
What a good answer contains: A good answer shows few figures, each tied to an action and a threshold, rather than a dashboard nobody acts on.
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Task 4
State the governance: who owns the data, who may change it, how access is controlled and what is kept when an entry is corrected.
What a good answer contains: A good answer keeps an audit trail of corrections, limits access by role, and names an owner accountable for accuracy.
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