The feature is already in the product
A plant runs on what people can see while they work. Shipping today. The pick face. The jobs due this shift. In most plants that view still lives on a laptop at a desk, or on a printout from this morning. The floor finds out by asking.
Marquis Playlists is the feature that moves it. It is not a signage project and it is not a second system to stand up. You choose the dashboards from the Marquis IQ model you already have, set how many seconds each one stays up, and the TV runs the rotation. Pause it, step forward, step back, or send it full screen and leave it.
The playlist is built. The timers are built. A customer can put ERP data on the wall this week.
A playlist is a rotation, not a slideshow someone locked
Marquis Playlists takes the dashboards already built on your Marquis IQ model and plays them on a screen. You choose which dashboards, in which order, and how many seconds each one stays up. Fifteen seconds for a board you can read while walking past. Longer for a table someone stops to study. Pause it, step forward, step back, or send it full screen and walk away.
The people who own that area control the rotation. The dock lead decides what the dock sees. The cell lead decides what the cell sees. IT does not have to rebuild a display every time the shift wants a different board, and a vendor does not own the sequence. It is your ERP data, on your wall, on a timer you set.
The screen shows what you put on the playlist and nothing else. Margin stays off the dock TV because you leave it off the dock's rotation. The front office does not need the pick face. One screen, one place, one playlist.
Why a controlled TV changes the plant
- Transparency is a management system. When the queue, the late orders, and the scrap are on the wall, the floor and the office are looking at the same number. Nobody has to ask for the latest version.
- Seeing the number changes behavior. People pace a shift to what is in front of them. A late order on the dock screen gets moved. A short at the pick face gets called before the truck is at the door. A printout from yesterday does not do that.
- The timer is the control. A dashboard built for a mouse is the wrong shape for a wall. Dwell time, set per dashboard and per playlist, is what makes a rotation readable. Glance boards stay up just long enough. Tables stay up long enough to use.
- The users run it. The dock lead decides what the dock sees. The cell lead decides what the cell sees. When the work changes, they change the order and the seconds. Nobody has to open a ticket to retune a display.
- The screen runs on its own. Open the playlist, go full screen, and walk away. Second shift sees the same rotation the first shift left running.
- It is the same model, already built. The TV reads the Marquis IQ model of your ERP, the same one Excel, the dashboard, and Ask Marquis AI read. There is no second copy of the data to maintain.
This is how Data for all reaches the floor
Playlists is one of the ways into the same model. The controller opens it in Excel. The plant sees it on the wall. The number does not get copied into a separate display tool. It comes with Marquis IQ Unlimited, so a customer who has Marquis IQ already has the rotator. The decision left is which screen, which dashboards, and how many seconds.
Data for all includes the person who never sits down. The playlist is how that person sees the number.
Where a plant puts a screen
Each of these is one playlist. The dashboards are yours. The seconds are yours. The list is the kind of rotation we see earn its place.
Picking
What is short, what is next, and which orders are waiting on a part. The pick face stops being a question yelled at the person with the handheld.
Assembly
The jobs in the cell, the kits that are ready, and the ones that are not. The line sees the constraint before it walks up and finds an empty bin.
Production
What is due this shift, what is running, and what slipped. The supervisor's walk-through and the operator's view are the same board.
Fulfillment
Orders left to ship, on time, at risk, and late. The dock knows which truck matters before the customer calls.
Order entry
Orders in today, orders on hold, and credit holds waiting on a release. The people taking the order can see the backlog they are adding to.
Customer service
Open orders by promise date, and the ones already late. The person on the phone is looking at the same status the floor is looking at.
Sales
Bookings this week and quotes that have gone quiet. Keep margin off a screen that visitors walk past. Put it on the rotation in the office, not the lobby.
Quality
Scrap this shift, lots on hold, and first-pass yield. A number on the wall is harder to explain away than a number in a Friday email.
Receiving
What is due in today and which shortages it clears. Receiving can see the pick face's problem before the pallet is put away in the wrong place.
Maintenance
Open work orders and the lines that are down. The request stops living in a radio call and starts living where the crew already looks.
Choose the dashboards, set the dwell time, and leave it running. It is already in Marquis IQ, and it comes with Unlimited.