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Training path: Plant Manager

For a plant manager who cares about cross-site performance, capacity/dollar impact, and getting answers without waiting on a report, you live mostly in Improve, with regular check-ins on plant-wide rollups.

Objectives

By the end of this path you can read a cross-site status at a glance, ask a plain-language question and trust the answer, find where money is leaking, judge whether a process is in control, and get numbers to stakeholders who live in Excel.

Walkthrough

Onboarding

  1. How to sign in to Spall
  2. How to check plant status and drill into a problem, the OEE rollup across every site/area/work-center, right on the live map, is your starting point.
  3. How to manage the plant hierarchy, understand how your plant(s) are modeled before trusting any rollup number.

Core workflow

  1. How to ask your factory a question, the fastest path from a question to a sourced answer.
  2. How to find $-ranked opportunities and ML insights, where capacity/money is leaking, ranked, with model transparency.
  3. How to export reports and compare shifts, CSV exports, shift comparisons, and scheduled subscriptions for stakeholders.
  4. How to track first-pass yield and top defect types

Advanced

  1. How to run an SPC control chart and Cpk study, go from “yield is down” to “is this process actually in control.”
  2. How to browse raw telemetry in the Historian and How to manage Work Items (incidents, andon, repairs), for when a dashboard number needs a real investigation behind it.
  3. How to connect Excel via OData, give stakeholders who live in Excel a live pull instead of asking you for numbers.

Checkpoint questions

  1. If you ask “why is OEE down on Line 2” in Ask Your Factory, what should the answer include besides the number itself?
  2. What’s the difference between the Value Discovery board and the ML insights list on the Opportunities page?
  3. Reports’ shift comparison chart shows a shift with no bar for its rate instead of a zero. What does that mean, and why isn’t it just shown as 0%?
  4. Before trusting a Cpk score, what two things do you need to pick on the Capability screen, and why are there no dropdowns for them (unlike the Historian)?
  5. What’s the one URL format a stakeholder pastes into Excel to get live Spall data, and what security trade-off makes that URL form work when a normal API call wouldn’t?

You can now…

…move from a cross-site status glance to a sourced answer, a dollar-ranked priority list, and a real statistical read on process stability, and hand stakeholders a live Excel feed instead of another one-off export.