The production board

The production board is your whole floor at a glance: every job, and the stage it’s in right now.

The stages

A job moves through six stages:

1. Pending — created, not yet started.
2. In Prep — art, screens, or files are being prepared.
3. Awaiting Approval — holding for a customer or internal sign-off.
4. Approved — cleared to print.
5. In Production — on the press or machine.
6. Completed — done and ready to hand off.

Why the board is always right

Every stage change is recorded as a timestamped event. That does two things at once:

• The board reflects the true, current state of every job, in real time. No one has to remember to update a spreadsheet.
• Your analytics are built from those same events, so you get accurate phase timings, cycle time, and on-time delivery for free, without anyone filling out a timesheet.

Moving a job

Advancing a job is one tap, from any device. An admin can move it from a laptop; a worker can tap it forward at a station. The detail of how the floor does this is in Advancing stages & the worker view.

Scheduling jobs

To put jobs on specific days and assign them to people, use the Schedule, a drag-and-drop calendar that sits alongside the board.