Digital signage for manufacturing that proves every shift saw the safety board

Digital signage for manufacturing puts output against target, downtime, scrap and safety status on screens the plant already owns, and keeps playing when the line network drops. Displayer runs in a browser on your existing panels, costs from 19 USD per active screen per month, and takes periodic screenshots of every screen, so when an auditor or a customer asks whether the safety notice was actually on the wall during second shift, you have the picture rather than an assurance.

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Build a floor board right here, before you talk to anyone

The screen builder below is the real player. Pick a layout and an orientation, type a line target, a shift note and a safety message, and watch the loop run with its live clock. This is what a panel on the floor shows once it opens the Displayer URL.

Venue

Orientation

Layout

Business name

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

Put this on a screen

Weekly schedule

Venue: restaurant, retail store, clinic, gym, office, school, plant floor, church, senior living or real estate office
Orientation: landscape 16:9 or portrait 9:16
Layout: full bleed, main plus sidebar, or a menu board in three columns
Content: your business name and three short lines, prefilled for the venue you picked

The schedule strip underneath shows the same playlist placed on a weekly grid, which is exactly what the schedule view does inside the product.

What a plant actually puts on the wall

Output against target for the line or the cell, refreshed from the system that already holds it
OEE broken into availability, performance and quality, so a bad hour is attributable
Downtime and the reason code, which is the number that starts the conversation at handover
Scrap and first pass yield, per line rather than per plant, because the plant average hides the problem
Days since the last recordable incident, and the current hazard or lockout in force
Shift handover: who is on, what changed, what is still open from the previous crew
Plant notices that never reach the floor by email, because most of the floor has no email

The screens that get read are the ones showing a number that moved since yesterday. A board that shows the same quarterly poster for six weeks becomes wallpaper, which is the usual reason a first attempt at floor screens gets abandoned.

Live data without anyone exporting a picture

A web page item shows an existing dashboard exactly as it is and refreshes it on the screen. If your MES, ERP or historian already publishes a browser view, the screen points at that view and the number on the wall is the number in the system. Nobody screenshots a report every Monday morning, and access stays with the tool you pointed at, so nothing confidential is copied into a signage library.

Proof that a safety message was displayed

This is the part most signage platforms handle as a log line. A playback log records that a file was scheduled and that a player reported it. That satisfies an internal review. It does not satisfy someone who wants to see what a worker walking past at 14:30 would have seen.

Displayer records the play history and takes periodic screenshots of the screen itself. The evidence is an image with a timestamp and a screen name. When a customer audit, an insurer or an internal safety review asks whether the hazard notice was showing on Line 3 during the shift where something happened, the answer is a picture from that shift.

That matters more in manufacturing than in most places signage gets sold. Toolbox talks, lockout notices, PPE changes and contractor inductions are all things a plant is expected to communicate and expected to evidence. Proof of play is on the Professional plan and above. The proof of play page covers how the record is kept and exported.

When the plant network drops, the screen keeps playing

Factory networks are not office networks. A VLAN gets reconfigured, a switch in a production cell is pulled for maintenance, or the site link goes down for an afternoon. A player that needs a live connection to render goes black, and a black screen above a line is worse than no screen at all.

Displayer caches the current schedule and its media on the device. If the connection drops the loop continues from local storage, and the player reconciles when the link returns. The play record for the offline period is uploaded with the rest, so the gap does not become a hole in the evidence. Screens report their own health, so you find out a panel is dark from the dashboard rather than from a supervisor.

Run it on the screens and PCs the plant already has

There is nothing to buy from us. Any screen with a browser pairs directly by opening a URL. A panel without a usable browser takes a small Android or Chrome device behind it. If your maintenance or IT team already images and patches Windows machines, a mini PC in kiosk mode is often the cheapest player in the building and is managed exactly like every other endpoint on site: your imaging, your patching, your inventory, your remote support. The Windows player page covers that setup, and Android digital signage covers the stick route.

Two things worth specifying before you mount anything. Brightness: a panel under skylights or near a bay door needs a commercial display, not a consumer TV, and a consumer TV in portrait next to a line will fail early. Enclosures: anywhere with dust, washdown or impact risk needs a rated enclosure, which is a hardware decision and not a software one. We have no interest in selling you either, which is why the advice is plain.

Line stop, evacuation and the message that cannot wait

An override takes every screen in a plant, or every plant, and holds a single message until you lift it. Evacuation, a chemical release, a weather closure, a line stop that changes what every downstream cell should be doing. On a floor where most people do not carry a phone and none of them are reading email, the screens on the walkways are the fastest channel the site has, and the override is one action rather than a content update on each board.

When the override lifts, every screen returns to its normal loop on its own. The override is recorded in the play history with the rest, so the timing of what was shown is part of the same record.

One plant, then the rest of them

Tag screens by site, line, cell, department or shift pattern, and schedule against the tag. A corporate safety message reaches every plant. A line target stays on that line. A plant can run its own local board without filing a request with head office, while roles and approvals keep publishing rights where they belong, and the audit log records who sent what and when. Roles and approvals and the enterprise plan cover multi-site control and single sign-on, and the security page covers how players connect outbound only, with no inbound port opened into a production network.

What a plant pays

Billed per active screen, so a plant with eight line boards and two break room screens counts as ten. Everyone on your team is included on every plan, which matters when supervisors on three shifts all need to post.

Plan	Per screen monthly	Per screen yearly	What a plant gets
Essential	19 USD	9 USD	One site, scheduling, offline playback, screen health
Professional	29 USD	14 USD	Groups, roles, approvals and proof of play across sites
Network	49 USD	24 USD	Single sign-on and the full audit log

Ten screens on Professional yearly is 1,680 USD for the year. Most plants that need playback evidence land on Professional, because that is where proof of play starts. The pricing page lists every feature per plan, and what a screen network costs covers the panels, players and installation that sit outside the software line.

How much does digital signage for manufacturing cost?

Software runs from 19 USD per screen per month, or 9 USD on the yearly rate, and most plants needing playback evidence pay 14 USD yearly on Professional. Hardware is separate and is the bigger number: a commercial panel, mount and player for a floor position typically lands between 1,500 and 4,000 USD installed, depending on size and enclosure.

Can digital signage show live production data from our MES or ERP?

Yes, if the system publishes a browser view. A web page item points at that dashboard and refreshes it on the screen, so the figure on the wall is read from the source rather than copied into a slide. No export, no middleware, and access stays controlled by the tool you pointed at.

Do the screens keep playing if the plant network goes down?

Yes. The schedule and its media are cached on the player, so the loop continues from local storage when the connection drops and reconciles when it returns. The play record for the offline period uploads with the rest, so an outage does not leave a gap in the evidence.

Can we use the TVs and PCs we already have on the floor?

Yes. Any screen with a browser pairs by opening a URL, and a Windows mini PC your IT team already manages works as a player in kiosk mode. Older panels take a small Android or Chrome device. Nothing is bought from us, and there is no installer to deploy.

How do we prove a safety message was displayed?

Displayer keeps the play history and takes periodic screenshots of the screen. The record is an image with a timestamp and a screen name, so a customer audit or a safety review sees what was actually on the wall during a given shift rather than a log entry saying a file was scheduled.

Can each plant run its own content while corporate keeps control?

Yes. Screens are tagged by site and line, and editor roles are scoped to a tag. A plant posts its own board without a request to head office, corporate messages override everywhere, and approvals plus the audit log record who published what.

Does it work on a screen with no internet connection at all?

A player needs a connection to receive a schedule and to upload its play record, but not to keep playing. A screen on an isolated segment that reaches the internet through a proxy or on a scheduled window works, provided it can call out. Players connect outbound only and never need an inbound port.

How many screens does a plant usually start with?

Two or three: one line board and one break room or entrance screen. That is enough to see whether people read them and whether the data feed holds up before the cost of mounting panels across the site is committed.

Start with one line board

Put a real target and a real downtime figure on the screens of one line for two weeks. If the line reads them, the rest of the plant is an easy argument. If it does not, you have spent one line finding out.