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Built a capacity dashboard for machine shops — curious what you all think of this.

I’ve been working on something for a couple months and wanted to get some honest feedback from people who actually run machines and deal with scheduling chaos.

Most shops I’ve worked with run blind on capacity — overloaded work centers, late jobs, guessing on RFQs, juggling spreadsheets, etc.

So I built a dashboard to make all of that visual:

🔹 Heat Map — shows bottlenecks instantly
🔹 Work Center Loading — where machines are overloaded
🔹 Gantt — how jobs actually flow
🔹 RFQ Simulation — whether you can take the job
🔹 Jobs at Risk — what’s about to be late

I’m not trying to sell anything here — just genuinely curious:

Would something like this be useful in your shop?
What would you want it to do that it doesn’t?

Here’s the visual I put together.

u/bookkeeping-2026 — 10 hours ago