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Getting started

Welcome to Data Board — an engineering delivery + capacity workspace for plant and mechatronics teams.

Built for eng/ops teams (roughly 10–80 people) who juggle too many parallel jobs and need a clearer picture of who’s on what and what’s left.

Free during beta. Pricing comes later.
Start here: app.databoardapp.com

Based in Switzerland.

1. Create your account

1. Open Start free beta.
2. Sign up with your work email.
3. Confirm you’re in — you land in the app workspace.

No credit card. Free during beta.

2. Set up your first workspace

Keep the first setup small so the team actually uses it.

• Name the workspace after the plant, program, or eng group (e.g. “Assembly cell projects”, “Mechatronics eng”).
• Invite 2–5 people who live in the parallel-job mess every day (project leads, planners, shop-floor eng leads) — not the whole company on day one.
• Agree on one active program you’ll track together for the first two weeks.

3. Capture work that is already running

Don’t start with a perfect process. Start with reality.

• Add the jobs / projects that are already in flight.
• For each: owner, status, and a rough capacity signal (are we overloaded / ok / have room?).
• Link related tasks only where it reduces status chase — skip ceremony.

Goal: one shared board instead of Slack threads + spreadsheets + “who’s on what?”.

4. Run the weekly rhythm

A simple loop beats a complex system:

1. Monday (or shift start): review capacity vs committed work.
2. Mid-week: update blockers and ownership — no status theatre.
3. End of week: what finished, what slipped, what we should not take next.

If something isn’t updated, treat that as a signal — not a failure of the tool.

5. Invite the rest of the team

When the core group trusts the board:

• Invite remaining eng/ops who touch delivery or capacity decisions.
• Keep one source of truth: if it’s not on the board, it isn’t planned capacity.

Need help?

• Free beta tips — how to get value in week one
• FAQ
• Questions: reply to your invite thread or contact the founder via the site

Next: Start free beta