The daily stand-up, on a screen.
SQDCP on a wall screen your shift can gather around. Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People, straight from the floor. Name the pillars you actually run.

Five columns, one morning read.
A huddle board the whole shift can read from across the floor. Each SQDCP column carries its indicator on top, the widgets that explain it underneath and the names of the people who answer for it, full screen with no menus in the way.
An indicator on every column
Safety opens on a safety cross and the other columns on a gauge, each covering the month to date with one mark per day.
The reasons underneath
Charts, tables and lists sit under each indicator, so the team can see why a day went red without leaving the board.
A name on every column
Each column shows its owner and deputy, so a red day already has someone to answer for it.
A month on a cross. A month on a ring.
The safety cross is the lean team’s month-shaped grid, one square per day. Bulk draws it for Safety and a gauge with one segment per day for the other columns, and fills each day from recorded results rather than a marker pen.
One mark per day
Past days take their colour from that day’s results. Days still to come stay grey.
The numbers behind a day
Hover a day to see each KPI behind it: the share of target, the target, the actual and any comment left when it was reported.
The plant’s calendar
Today follows the plant’s own clock, so a TV on the wall and a manager reading from another site see the same day.
You set the rule. The day takes the colour.
A visual management board only works if nobody shades it by hand. Each indicator holds a short list of rules, each tied to a KPI or a daily audit schedule, and Bulk checks them in priority order for every day of the month.
First miss wins
The first rule whose KPI missed its target, or whose audit was not completed, paints the day in that rule’s colour. When every rule passes, the day is green.
KPIs from anywhere in Bulk
A rule can read a KPI typed in by hand or one calculated from production records, audits, safety incidents or a formula.
Every rule has a source
Save stays off until each rule points at a KPI or an audit schedule, so no rule sits on the list doing nothing.
Short lists read best
Drag rules to change their order. Bulk suggests no more than eight per indicator.
Under each indicator, the reason for its colour.
A KPI board that stops at red and green only starts the conversation. Sixteen widget types can sit under an indicator, most reading live from the part of Bulk that owns the numbers, added from the Widget Marketplace and dragged between columns in edit mode.
KPIs against target
KPI Chart plots one KPI against its target with month-to-date and previous-day totals. KPI Table lays several across the week, each day coloured pass or fail.
The floor as it runs
Production Flow shows pace against a daily target and names the bottleneck station. Orders, OEE Events, OEE Overview and Downtime Pareto read production and OEE records.
People and checks
Attendance counts who is in or out from approved absences and shift patterns, Versatility Matrix shows skill levels from training, and Audit Status marks each scheduled audit Done or Miss.
The board’s own notes
Status Calendar and Checklist keep their own entries and File Display pins a PDF or image. Removing a widget that keeps entries asks first, because they go with it.
Yesterday’s numbers, in before the huddle.
Most of a board fills itself from records Bulk already holds. The numbers a team still keeps by hand go in through New report: pick the site and the day, type each actual against its target, submit, and the indicators and charts pick them up.
Only what is kept by hand
The report lists manual KPIs only. KPIs calculated from production, audits, incidents or a formula never ask to be typed.
Checked before it saves
Confirm Submission lists what will be saved, cleared and skipped before anything changes. After a weekend, up to seven days go in on one sheet.
Filed by the people closest to it
Filing needs KPI entry rights, which the Operator role holds, so an operator can report a number without being able to change the board. Future dates are not accepted.
Raise it at the board. Track it to done.
Lean daily management ends every red day with an owner and a date. A Task Table on a column lists open actions from the projects you choose, and adding one from the board creates a real task in that project, where it is worked and closed.
Real tasks, not sticky notes
Add Task opens the Create Task form for the widget’s projects: name, due date, priority, assignees and a description that can link a job or an order.
Only what the huddle needs
Filter by status and due date, from overdue only to overdue plus the next 7, 14 or 30 days, and show up to 25 tasks in the three columns you pick.
Late is obvious
An overdue due date turns red, so the board shows what slipped before anyone has to ask. The task itself is worked and closed in Tasks & Projects.
SQDCP by default, your columns by choice.
Every new board starts with Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People. Delete People and it becomes an SQDC board; drag Cost above Delivery and it reads SQCDP. Each column keeps a one-letter code, a safety cross or a gauge, and named owners and deputies.
Add, remove, reorder
Add Indicator adds a column and drag handles set the order. A column you add is titled by its one-letter code.
Cross or gauge
Choose a safety cross or a gauge for each column, whatever it measures.
Owners and deputies
Assign as many owners and deputies to a column as you need. Their avatars sit on the column head and on the board’s card.
A line board per team
The first board on a site is its main board. Boards added after it become line boards on its card, so a cell can run its own stand-up beside the plant’s.
Left on the wall, it keeps up.
Built for a screen nobody touches. The board opens on today, moves to the new day at midnight on the plant’s clock and updates as results come in. Pair the TV once in Pulse and it opens straight onto the board.
Always today
With no date chosen the board follows today on the plant’s clock and moves to the new day at midnight, checking every hour in case the screen slept.
Updates on its own
When a report is saved or a record behind a widget changes, the board picks it up by itself, so nobody reloads the screen before the huddle.
Back to any day
Select date opens another day on that screen only. The TV, left without a date, stays on today. Pairing a screen is covered in Pulse.
What an SQDCP board should answer.
An SQDCP board is the daily management board a team stands at to review Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People, agree what to fix and who owns it. On a Bulk teamboard every answer comes from records the plant already keeps. For running the meeting itself, see our SQDCP stand-up guide, or start from the SQDCP checklist template.
| The stand-up question | How the board answers it | Where you read it |
|---|---|---|
| Did we get through yesterday safely? | The safety cross colours each day from an incident KPI or a daily safety audit schedule. | Safety column, hover the day (Safety) |
| Did we make quality yesterday? | KPI Chart shows the previous day’s actual against its target, next to the month so far. | KPI Chart widget |
| Are we on pace today? | Production Flow compares output so far with the pace a daily target needs, and names the bottleneck station. | Production Flow widget (Production) |
| Which orders are late? | The Orders widget lists production orders by required date, with overdue dates in red. | Orders widget |
| Why did machines stop? | OEE Events lists open downtime with its reason and loss category, and Downtime Pareto ranks the reasons that cost most time. | OEE & Analytics widgets |
| Who is in today? | Attendance counts people in and out from approved absences and shift patterns, by department. | Attendance widget (People) |
| Were the checks done? | Audit Status marks each scheduled audit Done or Miss for each day of the week. | Audit Status widget (Audits) |
| Who is fixing it, and by when? | The Task Table lists open actions with due date and status, and every column names its owner and deputy. | Task Table (Tasks & Projects) |
One board, read from everywhere.
A teamboard keeps little of its own. It reads the records production, OEE, audits, safety, people and training already keep, and sends the actions it raises to Tasks & Projects.
- ProductionOrders, Production Flow and on-time delivery read the jobs.
- OEE & AnalyticsOEE widgets read the pauses and reasons logged at each station.
- AuditsDaily audit schedules colour days and fill Audit Status.
- SafetyIncident KPIs and Risk Assessment Reviews read safety records.
- PeopleAttendance reads approved absences and shift patterns.
- TrainingVersatility Matrix shows each person’s skill level.
- Tasks & ProjectsActions raised at the board become tasks in a project.
- PulseA paired TV opens straight onto the board.
Questions, answered.
What is an SQDCP board?
An SQDCP board is the daily management board a team meets at to review Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People. In Bulk it is a full-screen teamboard: each column has a safety cross or gauge coloured day by day from your KPIs and audit schedules, the widgets that explain the colour, and a named owner and deputy.
Can we run SQCDP, SQDC or our own columns instead?
Yes. A new board starts with the five SQDCP columns. In the board’s settings you can add a column, delete one, drag them into a new order, and set each column’s one-letter code and whether it shows a safety cross or a gauge. A column you add is titled by its letter.
How does a day turn red or green?
Each indicator has colour rules, each tied to a KPI or a daily audit schedule and checked in priority order. The first rule whose KPI missed its target, or whose audit was not completed, paints the day in that rule’s colour. When every rule passes the day is green, and days still to come stay grey.
Where do the numbers on the board come from?
From KPIs and the records behind them. Some KPIs are calculated from what Bulk already holds, such as on-time delivery and right first time from production, audit results and safety incidents; others are typed in through New report. Widgets also read production orders, OEE events, absences and shift patterns, and training records directly.
Can Bulk be our shift handover software?
Partly. The handover runs in Audits, beside the board: the audit template library includes a Shift Handover Report checklist covering production status, equipment status, safety and quality, and notes for the next shift, which you adapt, publish and schedule daily. A colour rule tied to that daily schedule paints the day on the board when the handover was not completed. Bulk does not keep a separate shift log.
Who fills in the daily numbers?
Anyone with KPI entry rights, which the Operator role includes. They press New report on the board, choose the site and a day up to today, and enter the manual KPIs with comments. Confirm Submission shows what will be saved or cleared before anything changes.
What happens to actions raised at the stand-up?
Add them from a Task Table on the relevant column. Each becomes a task in one of the projects that widget follows, with a due date, priority and assignees, and is worked and closed in Tasks & Projects. The table can show just the overdue tasks, or overdue plus the next 7, 14 or 30 days.
Can the board run on a TV without anyone touching it?
Yes. With no date chosen it shows today on the plant’s clock and moves to the new day at midnight, checking hourly in case the screen slept, and new numbers reach it without a reload. Pair the TV once in Displays, still marked Beta in settings, and it opens the board as its own display user, tied to the board’s site. Pairing and the list of screens are covered on the Pulse page.
Can one site have more than one board?
Yes. The first board on a site is its main board, and any board added after it becomes a line board shown on the main board’s card in Select Teamboard. Each board reads the data of its own site, and people see it only if they can access that site.
Who can change a board?
Viewing needs view rights, which operators, managers, admins and the Dashboards role used for displays all hold. Changing the layout or settings needs edit rights, held by managers and admins. Operators can still file reports, add tasks, tick checklists and mark the status calendar.
Does removing a widget delete any data?
Only for Status Calendar and Checklist, which keep their own entries. Bulk warns before removing either, because the entries go with it. Every other widget reads from elsewhere in Bulk, so removing it loses nothing.
Can the AI assistant set up the board?
Partly. In edit mode the Teamboard Assistant can read the board, add a chart for an existing KPI to a column you name, or create a manual KPI with sensible defaults and add its chart. It does not change indicator colours or add other kinds of widget.
Run tomorrow's huddle on a real board.
Start a free trial, set up your columns, point each indicator at the KPIs and audit schedules you already keep, and put the board on a screen for the next stand-up. No card needed.
