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Production Tracking Template for Small Manufacturers

This document introduces an Excel sheet template to help small manufacturers track daily production levels. It recommends first establishing a company's productivity rate and daily production goals. The template then allows users to track actual daily throughput over a week and monthly goals versus production. It provides a simple visualization tool but requires determining ideal productivity levels for meaningful tracking of production against goals.

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Production Tracking Template for Small Manufacturers

This document introduces an Excel sheet template to help small manufacturers track daily production levels. It recommends first establishing a company's productivity rate and daily production goals. The template then allows users to track actual daily throughput over a week and monthly goals versus production. It provides a simple visualization tool but requires determining ideal productivity levels for meaningful tracking of production against goals.

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  • Introduction to Production Tracking: Describes the importance of production tracking and provides a method to manage production data effectively using Excel sheets.
  • Weekly Production Goals: Presents a weekly overview of production goals vs. actual throughput using a bar chart for visual representation.
  • Yearly Production Goals: Offers a yearly summary of production goals versus actual throughput with an accompanying graph to illustrate trends.
  • Conclusion: Summarizes the insights from the production tracking Excel sheet and its advantages for small manufacturers.

Production Tracking Excel Sheet

With Tables for Small


Manufacturers

For small manufacturers that don’t have the luxury of having an MRP manufacturing software
package, don’t despair! While a little more laborious, small manufacturers can track their
previous day’s production levels via an excel sheet. Granted, it isn’t live, and is only updated
when someone takes the time to update it, but it can work. It just requires you figure out your
ideal production volumes and then track your actual production volumes daily. Therefore, I’ve
decided to include a production tracking excel sheet with tables for small manufacturers.

Focusing on Productivity Rates


First, before venturing into how this production tracking excel sheet is set up, it’s important to
establish your company’s productivity levels & productivity rate, or better put, the production
volumes your company should produce without any downtime. Now, I know that downtime is
part of manufacturing – it happens and it’s extremely difficult to eliminate all downtime.
Identifying the root causes of downtime, and putting plans in motion to eliminate that downtime,
is essential to reducing manufacturing cycle times and increasing production throughput. The
approach is to first determine your ideal production volumes, and then track your company’s
actual daily production volumes. This will allow you to compare the variances.
The excel sample sheet will track your daily production volumes, or throughput, relative to your
daily production goals. Next, a percentage of attained goal is added with a trend line for the
entire week. This is an ideal graph to showcase within the production area as a summary of the
prior week's production volumes. You can input whatever daily production goal objectives you
have and the actual volumes and the excel sheet will take care of the rest.
For this to be successful means your company must first determine your productivity rate and
use that to determine how much your company can produce in a given day without any
downtime. Therefore, I strongly suggest you read the following posts before moving forward with
this excel sheet.
The first one listed provides another sample excel sheet to track cycle time variances in
individual work cells. The second and third focus on analyzing cycle times and setting up better
work cells in order to increase the productivity rate emerging from these cells.
1) Cycle Time Tracking & Variance Analysis in Excel for Small Manufacturers
2) Do You Know How to Determine Your Manufacturing Productivity Rate?
3) Essential Cycle Time Analysis: Costs of Manufacturing Lost Time
As for the excel sheet itself, it couldn’t be any more straightforward. There are essentially two
portions to the sheet. The first focuses on tracking your production goals versus actual
production throughput throughput the week. The second tracks your monthly goals versus
production throughput. All you need to do is occupy the blue highlighted portions of the tables
entitled "production goals" and "actual throughput".
Now, this is merely a tool to visualize how your company tracks its daily and yearly production
throughput. However, this simple tool only works if your company first determines its ideal
productivity rate – or the amount your company should manufacture within a day with no
downtime.
Once you’ve determined these levels, it’s much easier to track production against those levels.
However, if you’ve already determined your ideal production volumes, then this excel sheet
should help in tracking production within a week, month and year. Here’s the production
sheet: Download Production Tracking Excel Sheet With Tables for Small Manufacturers
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