Process Data Dashboard Creation

📅 January 20, 2023

Automated Power BI dashboards that centralize production data and enable rapid root-cause analysis, reducing investigation time from days to hours for PE/QE teams.

Skills: Power BI Power Query DAX CSV Automated Reporting Dashboard Building

Problem

Process and quality engineers spent hours manually consolidating data from disparate sources before they could even begin root‑cause investigations. Each analysis required pulling CSV exports, merging datasets across tools routing systems, and manually cross-referencing timestamps—turning what should be rapid troubleshooting into multi-day efforts. This lag prevented timely responses to production issues and limited the team’s ability to identify systemic patterns.

Solution

I designed and deployed a suite of Power BI dashboards that became the department’s central investigation platform. Built on top of the Production Data ETL pipeline, these dashboards leverage clean, standardized datasets to enable rapid analysis. Using Power Query for automated data ingestion and DAX for complex measure calculations, I built repeatable workflows that:

  • Centralized multi-source data into a single interface, eliminating manual CSV wrangling
  • Automated refresh cycles to ensure engineers always worked with current production data
  • Implemented custom visualizations for routing analysis, parameter correlation, and temporal trending
  • Created drill-through capabilities enabling seamless navigation from high-level metrics to granular lot details
  • Standardized investigation templates so every engineer followed consistent analytical methodologies

The dashboards transformed raw process data into actionable insights, reducing the barrier between question and answer.

Impact

  • Accelerated root‑cause analysis from days to hours by eliminating data preparation overhead
  • Established department-wide standard for upstream process investigations
  • Improved response times to production excursions through real-time visibility
  • Enhanced cross-team collaboration with shared, consistent data views
  • Enabled pattern recognition across tools and time periods that were previously invisible

Multi-ScatterPlot with Filters Multi-parameter scatter plot matrix with dynamic filtering and DAX-calculated metrics

Stacked Histogram Stacked histogram revealing off-center distribution patterns in underperforming production lot

Temporal Dynamic Plots Time-series analysis with dynamic filtering and configurable offset calculations

Product Thickness with Image Temporal trend visualization with integrated reference imagery for process context

Dynamic Histogram Distribution analysis with dynamic filtering and real-time DAX statistical calculations

Scatter Side by Side Before-and-after scatter comparison with side-by-side metric analysis

End of Roll Deformation End-of-roll variation analysis with automated boundary detection (red demarcation)

Code Repository

Due to proprietary production data, source code is not publicly available.