Too many parallel jobs — not enough clear capacity
For plant and mechatronics eng/ops teams (roughly 10–80 people)
If your week looks like this, you’re not alone:
- Five “priority” jobs, all supposedly on track
- Status living in Slack threads, Excel, and someone’s head
- The same question every Monday: can we take one more project?
- Nobody quite knows who’s free — only who’s loud
That’s not a motivation problem. It’s a visibility problem across delivery and capacity.
The real cost isn’t the tool — it’s the chase
In special-machine, automation, and plant engineering shops, work arrives as overlapping programs: design, build, commission, change orders, supplier slips.
Leads spend hours reconciling:
- Who owns this cell / line / package?
- What slipped since Tuesday?
- Are we already over capacity if sales says yes?
By the time the spreadsheet is “updated,” reality has moved.
What “good” looks like
A team that trusts one shared picture can answer in under a minute:
- What is in flight
- Who is on the critical path
- Whether capacity is red, amber, or green for the next commit
No theatre. No second status meeting to decode the first one.
Why we built Data Board
Data Board is an engineering delivery + capacity workspace for exactly that world — mid-size plant and mechatronics teams drowning in parallel jobs.
We’re based in Switzerland. The product is in free beta (pricing later).
If this is your shop floor / eng office reality, we’d rather you try it on a live multi-job program than read another feature list.
Soft invite
Start free beta → app.databoardapp.com
Questions or feedback welcome — especially from teams who live in the parallel-job mess every day.
— Pranas Vaičius, founder
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