dvproduction
dvproduction features
MES, visual scheduling and machine IoT — all inside Business Central.
Shop Floor Control — MES embedded in Business Central
Run every activity on the shop floor from BC: check-ins, consumption, incidents, quality measurements and screens tailored to each industrial process.
Operator check-ins
- Start and end of operations with time control
- Date, time, machine and operator logged automatically
- Automatic execution time calculation
- Configurable: allow one or multiple open operations at a time
Material consumption
- Logging with lot and serial traceability
- Mandatory lot selection for tracked components
- Over-consumption control (warning or configurable block)
- Production journal lines generated automatically
Incident management
- Configurable incident type catalogue
- Machine stop control by incident type
- Logging with start time, end time and affected units
- Full history in Incident Movements
- Automatic incidents from IoT alarms (if configured)
Quality measurements
- Measurement template per routing operation
- Logging with the measurement equipment used
- Equipment calibration traceability (device type, serial, range, frequency)
- RDLC report of measurements for audits
Specialised screens
- Dosing: recipe, component amounts, actual weights, tolerances
- Packaging: product, lot, packed quantity, barcode labelling
- Consumption: component pick, quantity, lot, available stock
- Screen type is configured per operation in the routing
Personnel assignment
- Personnel by work centre / machine centre
- Resource families by skill/speciality
- Bulk automatic assignment by family
Visual Scheduling — four views in one screen
Gantt chart, workload matrix, operations list and operator calendar. With 10+ dynamic filters and a real-time KPI panel.
Interactive Gantt chart
- Time bars with drag-and-drop rescheduling
- Automatic work-centre capacity check (if >100%, offers first available day)
- Operation dependencies (predecessors/successors)
- Sales-order impact (delay detection with calculated days)
- Automatic adjustment of linked operations (later, earlier, or both)
- Single click: opens routing lines. Double click: opens order record
- Grouping by work centre, machine, resource, customer, order or category (2 levels)
- Periods: day, week or month
Workload matrix
- Rows: work centres, machines or resources (per grouping)
- Columns: up to 12 periods (day/week/month)
- Cells with % utilisation and colour code — Green (1-70%), Yellow (71-100%), Red (>100%)
- Drill-down on each cell to see which orders drive the load
- Period navigation (previous/next)
- Total load hours, capacity and overall % utilisation
Grouped operations list
- All operations in tabular format
- Groupable by 2 levels (centre, machine, resource, customer, order, category)
- Quick review without the visual complexity of the Gantt
Operator calendar
- Weekly view (Monday to Sunday)
- Rows: operators/resources
- Cells: assigned operations with planned hours
- Detects under-loaded operators and over-assignments
Real-time KPI panel
- Delayed operations (red if >0, with drill-down)
- Operations in progress (yellow)
- Pending to release (yellow if >5)
- Planned hours this week and available capacity
- Plant utilisation % (green ≤80%, yellow ≤100%, red >100%)
Dynamic filters
- Date range (configurable in Manufacturing Setup)
- Grouping level 1 and level 2, period (day/week/month)
- Work centre, machine centre, resource
- Customer, production order, product, category
- Order status (Planned, Firm Planned, Released, Finished)
- All applied instantly
Workload Levelling — the system proposes, you decide
Automatic overload analysis with replanning suggestions. Accept, reject or tweak each proposal individually.
Suggestion engine
- Scans every work centre in the date range
- Detects overloads (>100% utilisation)
- Looks for days with available capacity
- Builds suggestions with current dates, proposed dates, reason and impact on orders
- Individual accept or reject per suggestion
- Preview of linked operations before applying
- Adjustment of later, earlier or both operations
- Regenerates suggestions after changes
Delay alerts
- Automatic detection when a change delays a sales order
- Alert with customer, order, production order, original date, new date and days of delay
- BC notification to the salesperson (configurable)
- Automatic email to the customer with a configurable template
- Delay alert panel with statuses (Pending / Notified / Sent / Resolved)
Machine IoT — your machines talk, the ERP listens
Connect your machines to Business Central through a native REST API. 7 industrial protocols, automatic actions, real-time dashboard.
Data flow
- 01 Machine
- 02 Industrial gateway
- 03 REST API (BC)
- 04 dvproduction
- 05 Dashboard
Supported protocols
- OPC UA
- Modbus TCP
- MQTT
- S7
- REST API
- MTConnect
- EthernetIP
Signal types and automatic actions
| Signal | Automatic action |
|---|---|
| Run | Creates operation start check-in |
| Stop | Closes check-in, computes execution time |
| PieceCount | Updates produced quantity |
| Alarm | Creates incident (if auto-logging is on) |
| Energy | Logs energy consumption |
| CycleTime | Logs cycle time |
| Speed | Logs speed |
Shop floor dashboard
- Per-machine status with traffic light (green / yellow / red)
- Current production order
- Product being manufactured
- Assigned operator
- Order quantity vs. progress
- Pieces produced today
- Automatic refresh
Per-machine configuration
- Machine code, protocol, endpoint URL
- Node IDs (Run, PieceCount, Alarm, Speed)
- Polling interval in milliseconds
- Gateway ID, linked work centre
- Flags: auto-logging of operations and incidents
Commercial Management for manufacturing
Quote breakdowns, commercial statuses, quote → order → production-order conversion, order tracking.
- Sales-quote breakdown by components (product, work centre, account)
- Configurable margin percentage per customer
- Commercial statuses: New → Under Review → Sent → Accepted / Rejected
- Automatic conversion quote → order → production order
- Automatic archiving of accepted quotes
- Order status with visibility of linked production orders
- 12 customised RDLC layouts (invoices, delivery notes, orders, route sheets, labels)
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