Making a spectacle

A conventional scatter plot representation of actual and planned manufacturing sequence is difficult to interpret without significant background knowledge of both local conditions and the generic manufacturing process. Visualisation can remove these barriers and promote understanding of the underlying manufacturing conditions that contribute to a given level of performance. Manufacturing professionals armed with this knowledge have an opportunity to improve the accuracy of related decision making. A functional prototype has been developed to present automotive manufacturing sequence data using a new form of visualisation facilitated through the manipulation of data and database structures.