Quality visibility for mid-size manufacturers

From problem reports to plant intelligence.

FloorSignal reads the problem reports your plant already writes — Word, Excel, PDF — and turns them into live quality dashboards. In minutes, not meetings. No new forms, no process change, no IT project.

BUILT BY SOMEONE WHO SPENT A DECADE WRITING THESE REPORTS BY HAND

app.getfloorsignal.com/plant/line-2
INCOMINGNCR-2026-0417.docx
Title: Cracked weld at frame bracket
Opened: 2026-06-14
Location: Weld Cell 2 / Stn 12
Defect: Weld porosity / crack
Severity: Major
Status: In progress
Disposition: Rework
▶ parsing · 9 fields extracted · 0 re-typed · illustrative sample data
LINE 2 · QUALITY OVERVIEW ● LIVE · UPDATED JUST NOW
37OPEN ISSUES
6OVERDUE
92%CLOSURE RATE
11dAVG AGE
PARETO · DEFECT TYPES30 DAYS
welddimenassysurfelecother
REPORT VOLUMEWEEKLY
NCR-113 · severity confidence 0.62 → sent to human review nothing guessed · ever
120+
PROBLEM REPORTS IN A TYPICAL MONTH AT A MID-SIZE PLANT
0
DASHBOARDS ANYONE CAN OPEN
The problem

Your quality data is trapped in documents.

Every plant runs on problem reports — but they live in Word files, shared drives, and inboxes. The information exists. The visibility doesn't.

Buried in .doc filesNobody can query a folder of Word documents.
No live pictureTrends only surface when someone builds slides.
Manual compilationEngineers re-type data instead of fixing root causes.
Audit fire drillsHistory requests trigger a scramble — gaps get exposed.
The cost

The status quo isn't free.

What manual quality reporting typically costs a mid-size plant:

8+ hrs
per engineer, per week

Spent compiling reports and building status slides by hand.

Weeks
to spot a repeat failure

Trends hide across dozens of documents until someone connects the dots.

$100K+
cost of one late catch

A defect that ships — or stalls delivery — dwarfs the cost of any software.

TYPICAL INDUSTRY FIGURES — ON A CALL, WE'LL USE YOURS INSTEAD.

How it works

Three steps. Zero process change.

1

Drop in your reports

Upload the .doc / .docx problem reports, Excel trackers, or PDF forms your team already produces. Batch or one at a time.

2

Automatic parsing

Every field — line, station, defect type, severity, disposition, dates — is extracted and structured. No re-typing.

3

Live dashboards

Trends, Pareto of failure modes, station hot-spots, open vs. closed aging — refreshed the moment a report lands.

Setup measured in days, not quarters — your first dashboard from your own data on day one.

Trust

“How do I know it read my reports right?”

Fair question — quality people should be skeptical. FloorSignal is built so you never have to take its word for anything.

  • A confidence score on every field

    Every extracted value carries a per-field confidence score and links back to the exact source document that produced it.

  • Uncertain? A person checks it

    Any record below 90% confidence goes to a human review queue before it touches a dashboard. FloorSignal never silently guesses.

  • It learns your format once

    A short one-time wizard: upload 5–10 sample reports, confirm the proposed field mapping. Your severity scale, your local vocabulary.

  • Corrections make it sharper

    Every human correction becomes a training example for your plant's profile — accuracy compounds week over week.

What you get

One place to see the whole floor.

Pareto of failure modes

The vital few defect types driving most of your pain, ranked and always current.

Trend view

Report volume, severity mix, and closure rates over time — by week, month, or program.

Station & line hot-spots

See exactly where problems cluster — and whether fixes actually stick.

Open-issue aging

Every open report with owner and age. Nothing quietly dies in a folder again.

One-click exports

Boardroom-ready PNG slides and PowerPoint decks straight from live data.

Audit-ready history

Complete, searchable record of every problem and disposition — pulled up in seconds, not scrambled for in days.

Before / after

A Monday morning, before and after.

Today

  • Quality engineer opens 30 Word files to build the weekly review
  • Slides assembled by hand — numbers already stale by the meeting
  • “Haven't we seen this defect before?” — nobody is sure
  • Customer asks for six months of history; team loses two days digging

With FloorSignal

  • Dashboard is already current — review prep takes minutes
  • Meeting runs off live data; discussion shifts to root causes
  • Repeat failures flagged automatically across lines and months
  • Audit request answered the same afternoon, with full history
Why FloorSignal

Built by a manufacturing operator, for manufacturing operators.

Most quality software is built by software companies guessing at manufacturing. FloorSignal was designed by someone who spent ten years on the floor they’re guessing about.

A decade on the floor10 years in heavy manufacturing — production assembler to commissioning manager of a greenfield plant.
Operator-first designEvery screen is shaped by how supervisors, technicians, and quality engineers actually work — not by how software companies imagine they do.
Built against real-world formatsThe parsing engine was developed against the messy, inconsistent report formats plants actually produce — not clean sample data invented by a software team.
Built for plants like yoursSized and priced for mid-size operations. Sits on top of your existing QMS — doesn't replace it.
Pricing

Start small. Prove it on your data.

30-Day Pilot
$750
one-time
  • Up to 6 months of your historical reports loaded
  • Full dashboard suite for your team
  • Working session to review findings together
  • 100% credited to your subscription if you continue
Start with a pilot
Plant Subscription
$899/mo
per plant · unlimited users · cancel anytime
Annual: $809/mo — save 10%
3-year: $674/mo — save 25%
  • One flat price for the whole plant — never per seat
  • All dashboard views + PNG / PowerPoint exports
  • New features as they ship — no version upgrades
  • Direct line to the founder for support
Book a 30-min demo
Multi-Site
Custom
for 3+ plants
  • Cross-plant benchmarking and rollups
  • Custom report formats and fields
  • Onboarding support at each site
  • Volume pricing
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See it on your data

See your own reports as a live dashboard.

Send us five recent problem reports. We'll show you your floor in a 30-minute call — no commitment, no setup on your side.

Book your 30-minute demo

five reports in → your floor on screen → thirty minutes