Manufacturo is proud to announce the release of Action Boards, a fully integrated, real-time action-tracking system designed to eliminate ambiguity, reduce downtime, and drive accountability across the shop floor for a wide variety of essential actions.
Action Boards mark the beginning of a powerful, extendable Actions Frameworkâreplacing your disconnected and disparate task systems with a unified, purpose-built platform for managing actions across the entire manufacturing and operations lifecycle.
When technicians wait for inspectors, delays ripple across the production line. Action Boards eliminate that uncertainty by aligning the right people, at the right time, with full visibility into every action taken.
Action Boards goes far beyond a simple quality callboard. Itâs a powerful, extensible platform that supports high-impact scenariosâfrom safety reporting and facilities dispatching to work order feedback loops, nonconformance further action and mitigation, and even engineering change processes. By harnessing the same âactive constraintsâ engine behind our nonconformance workflows, Action Boards will automatically block, schedule, monitor, and sequence tasks based on real-time workflow conditions. The result? You offload the cognitive burden of juggling and remembering every detail, freeing teams to focus on the most important work. With Action Boards, accountability is built into every taskâso actions resolve on time, every time, and your entire operation runs smarter and more efficiently.
When Timing Is Everything
In complex manufacturing environments, the cost of inaction is high. Technicians often wait on inspectors or engineers with no visibility into when help is comingâor whether anyone even received the call for support. Traditional systems arenât built to handle the dynamic flow of shop floor requests, leading to missed actions, delayed inspections, and mounting frustration.
Action Boards was engineered specifically for high-mix, high-tech production environments where coordination is critical. Every call, response, and resolution is documented, timestamped, and trackedâcreating a closed-loop accountability system fully embedded within Manufacturoâs broader manufacturing platform.
Flexible Like a Ticketing System. Built for Manufacturing.
Manufacturoâs Actions Framework delivers the flexibility teams expect from modern task management toolsâbut with the structure, visibility, and native integration only possible in a purpose-built manufacturing operating system.
Key framework capabilities include:
- Native integration across supply chain, production execution, quality, and other Manufacturo documents and workflows
- Full action execution tied to work orders and procedures
- Unlimited extensions for calls, further actions, feedback, safety, engineering changes, facilities, maintenance, audits, and more
- Embedded visibility and tracking throughout the entire workflow
- Effectivity-driven controls that guide and constrain actions within authorized transactions
- A consistent, scalable structure that grows with operational complexity
Key Features of Action Boards
Transparent Issue Resolution
- Ensure every call or action is tied to a specific follow-up constraint, creating a clear, traceable path from request to resolution
- Clear task ownership from initiation to completion
- Enhanced visibility with real-time updates on process time, status, assignee, and resolution path
- Nonconformance (NC) Further Actions enable teams to respond to low-complexity and non-systemic follow-on actions without launching a formal CAPA project
- Address material defects, design discrepancies, and process-related issuesâincluding training-based actions to reduce human error
Actionable Insights & Reporting
- Track action volume, rejection rates, resolution times, and team responsiveness
- Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies through data-rich Action Board statistics
- Drive continuous improvement with insight into whoâs helping, whoâs waiting, and where to focus
Improved Coordination Across Roles
- Assign actions to specified roles to ensure work is performed by qualified personnel
- Synchronize the availability of technicians, inspectors, and engineers
- Reduce downtime by aligning readiness before dispatch
- Strengthen collaboration with real-time communication and clear ownership
Built with love for the Shop Floor, not a Ticketing System
- Designed specifically for complex manufacturingânot retrofitted IT tools
- Fully integrated into Manufacturoâs core platform for ease of use
- Scales with your production environment and adapts to both manufacturing and facility support needs
Action Boards are more than a new featureâthey are the foundation of a smarter, more connected manufacturing future. With it, teams gain the speed, clarity, and accountability needed to thrive in todayâs high-stakes production environments.
