Put the Whole Shop on One Screen
Live job status, production runs, and machine assignments. Visible to everyone on the floor, updated in real time on any TV or monitor.
Why Flying Blind on Your Floor Costs You
Shops without a live floor display waste hours every week on status updates, miss handoffs between stations, and make decisions without the full picture.
Floor crews rely on verbal check-ins, morning meetings, or tracking down the manager to know what they should work on next. That overhead adds up to hours every week of unproductive time.
Status chasing eats hours every day.
Workers waste paid minutes lining up at a shared kiosk to punch into a timecard system, then again to clock out for breaks, lunch, and end of shift. Multiply that by every operator, every day, and a real chunk of production time disappears into a clock.
Timecard kiosks burn production time.
Many shops still pass jobs between stages on a clipboard or paper traveler. Workers walk the floor to drop off the next sheet, the next station only finds out a job is ready when the paper shows up, and traveler updates lag behind reality. Handoffs sit invisibly between stations until someone notices.
Clipboards and travelers slow every handoff.
Managers leave their desk to check floor status. When they're on the floor, they can't see the rest of the shop. There is no single view of what is actually happening across the whole operation.
No one has the full picture.
"I bought a 65-inch TV for the shop thinking I'd put something useful on it. It showed a slideshow of the company logo for two years."Owner, 10-person fabrication shop
Shop Floor Display in 30 Seconds
From any browser to any screen, the whole shop is one view away.
Open the display in any browser on any TV, monitor, tablet, or laptop in the shop. No proprietary hardware required. Just a screen and a connection.
Grid view shows job cards by machine or station. List view shows a prioritized queue. Configure what fields and stages are visible per screen.
As jobs move through production run stages, the display updates automatically. No manual refresh and no one has to update a separate board.
Workers can mark a job as paused, flag a material problem, or signal stage completion directly from the display without leaving their station.
What This Gets You
Every worker knows what is next without asking
The display is the floor's single source of truth. Priorities, stages, and assignments are always visible. Morning meetings become optional.
Handoffs between stations happen on their own
When one stage completes, the next station sees it immediately on their screen. Work stops sitting unnoticed between steps.
Bottlenecks have a name and a face
When work stalls, everyone in the shop can see where and with whom. That visibility creates natural accountability: no one wants to be the station holding up the run, so problems get surfaced and resolved fast.
Managers see the whole floor from anywhere
The same display works on a phone, a laptop in the office, or a 65-inch TV on the floor. You always have the full picture without walking the shop.
Everything Included
Core functions and shop workflows, purpose-built for CNC and fabrication floor visibility.
TV grid view
Full-screen display showing jobs grouped by machine, station, or stage with color-coded status and live progress.
Live status sync
Job and run status updates appear on the display the moment they change in the system. No polling, no refresh.
Multi-screen support
Run different display configurations on different screens around the shop simultaneously. Each screen shows what that station needs.
Custom display layouts
Choose which fields, stages, and columns are visible on each screen. A manager overview looks different from a machinist's queue view.
Worker interaction
Floor crew can update job status, log a pause, and signal stage completions directly from the display. No back-office login needed.
Shop Workflows Covered
Works With
Shop Floor Display connects seamlessly to the rest of your OpenSpindle workflow.
Production Runs
The display draws its live data directly from active production runs and updates as stage status changes.
Learn moreTeam Management
Assign workers to stations and their queue appears on the relevant display automatically.
Learn moreScheduling
The scheduled job order feeds into the display so the floor sees work in the same priority the schedule set.
Learn moreFrequently Asked Questions
Any screen with a browser. A standard TV connected to a laptop, Chromebook, Amazon Fire Stick, or a smart TV browser all work. OpenSpindle does not require proprietary hardware or special software installation.
Yes. You can configure multiple display views and run each on a different screen at the same time. One screen might show the CNC router queue, another shows the finishing station, and a third gives the manager a full-shop overview.
Workers are set up as team members in OpenSpindle and access their station view from there. The level of access depends on whether they are only viewing status or also updating job progress and logging completions.
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