manta is a fully managed suite of operational reporting dashboards designed to enhance your Redzone implementation.
manta helps manufacturing teams understand losses, performance drivers, and the impact of improvement activity over time.
What is manta?
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manta stands out for the value it brings to daily operations meetings, helping teams quickly and effectively prioritise the biggest losses, to improve shop floor performance
manta is a fully managed set of Power BI reports built on your Redzone data. It combines Redzone with other data from around your organisation, such as the production plan, so your teams can see what is costing them output and whether their improvement work is paying off.
Why did we build manta?
Manufacturing teams generate vast amounts of operational data, but turning that data into clear, prioritised action is often difficult. Insight is spread across multiple reports, views are inconsistent over time, and it can be hard to see which losses matter most or whether improvement efforts are really working.
As a result, performance conversations can become reactive and opinion-led. Teams spend significant time preparing reports for meetings, rather than focusing on understanding problems and driving change.
What manta does
manta sits alongside Redzone and adds one consistent layer of reporting for your daily and weekly performance meetings. It brings in plan data and other sources, so actual performance sits next to what was planned and next to your losses.
All major loss categories, including availability, speed losses and small stops, are expressed in the same terms, so you can compare them directly and see where to focus. The same views serve the shop floor, site leadership and central operations teams, so everyone works from the same numbers.
manta gives you a consistent view of performance over time, with the key measures in one place. Teams can see where performance is changing, what is driving it, and whether improvement actions are working.
manta expresses all losses in comparable terms, making it easier to see which issues matter most. By viewing losses side by side across lines, products, or sites, teams can prioritise improvement efforts with confidence and focus on the opportunities that will deliver the greatest performance gains.
manta pulls in the production plan and other datasets from around your organisation and combines them with Redzone data. You can see plan attainment, and exactly why plans are being missed.
We deploy manta on top of your existing Redzone data, so teams are using it within days. We manage it for you and keep the reporting reliable and up to date as your operation changes.
manta is designed to enhance the value of your existing Redzone deployment, not compete with it. Get in touch with our team to arrange a demo.
Get in touchbuilt for the shop floor and beyond
manta delivers operational reporting designed for use across all levels of the organisation, from operatives on the shop floor through to senior leadership. It provides consistent, trusted insight that supports both daily decisions and longer-term performance management.
manta defines a consistent set of objective performance measures and expresses losses in comparable terms.
This makes it clear what good looks like, where performance is being lost, and which issues should be prioritised for improvement.
manta provides views of performance over time, allowing teams to see trends clearly and distinguish normal variation from meaningful change.
This makes it easier to understand how performance is evolving, assess improvement impact, and identify whether gains are being sustained.
manta's report pages are tailored specifically for your daily, weekly, and monthly performance meetings.
With optional email subscriptions, insights reach the right people ahead of meetings, reducing preparation time and keeping conversations focused on action.
Alongside standard views, manta allows teams to explore data in more detail through focused deep dive pages, filtering, and build-your-own charts.
This makes it easy to investigate specific issues and answer targeted operational questions.
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Choose the reporting you need
manta is built as a modular product, so teams can choose the reporting modules that best support their operational priorities and Redzone implementation. manta always includes our core Performance module, with additional modules added as required.
We regularly release improvements and new features to keep manta evolving, and we always welcome suggestions from our users to make sure it keeps adding value.
Performance & Planning
The Performance & Planning module supports key operational reviews by providing a clear, objective view of operational performance across lines, shifts, and sites. It brings together availability, performance, and quality in a single, consistent framework, helping teams understand not just how they are performing, but why.
It also shows how actual production compares to plan, bringing together planned volumes and run times with actual execution to give a clear view of plan attainment. By highlighting where production has over- or under-delivered, and how much planned run time was actually achieved, it helps teams understand why plans are missed and where constraints or assumptions need to be revisited.
The module also provides visibility of how Forums and Actions are being used, helping teams understand how effectively Redzone is supporting performance management.
Key Questions Answered
- How are we performing, and how has that changed over time?
- What losses are impacting performance and where?
- Are we on track to hit plan today and this week?
- Where have we over- or under-produced, and how much planned run time was actually achieved?
- How effectively is our team using Redzone?
Safety & Quality
The Safety & Quality module brings quality and safety reporting into a single view, so teams can see how both are tracking and whether problems are being dealt with. It surfaces emerging risks early and shows whether corrective actions are being completed and having the intended effect.
Quality reporting covers giveaway, compliance, and quality check results, showing where standards are slipping and whether checks are being completed on time and to standard.
Safety reporting covers incidents, near misses, and hazards, tracking accident rates, near-miss reporting, and hazard close-out, so teams can see where risk is building and whether it is being acted on.
This module builds on the Performance & Planning module and is available as an optional addition to manta.
Key Questions Answered
- How are our safety incidents and observations trending over time?
- How are we performing against our audit checks, and is that improving?
- Which products and lines are experiencing giveaway issues?
- Are quality checks being completed on time, and are standards being consistently met?
Best Practice & Data Quality
The Data Quality & Best Practice module checks how well your Redzone configuration is set up. It shows where small gaps are quietly skewing OEE, plan attainment and loss analysis, so you can fix them at the source.
Product checks flag products with no SKU code or target OEE, and reconcile the production plan against Redzone run data to catch products that appear in one but not the other.
Rate checks show whether rates are consistent within each manufacturing type, and whether planned rates in Redzone match the production plan, so planning and operations work from the same numbers.
Best practice reporting shows how many lost time reasons each asset has and how often each is used, so you can spot assets with too many reasons and reasons you could remove.
Key Questions Answered
- How well is our Redzone configuration set up?
- Are our products set up correctly in Redzone?
- Are product rates consistent, and do planned rates agree between Redzone and the plan?
- Are our lost time reasons configured optimally?
Custom Reporting
We also offer additional custom modules tailored to specific operational or commercial needs that extend manta beyond the standard modules.
Custom modules can connect to your organisational data and systems and, where relevant, be combined with Redzone data to answer specific questions. This allows teams to explore areas of performance unique to their operation, while keeping reporting aligned with the core manta framework.
Typical uses include
- Targeted analysis of specific processes, products, or assets
- Combining operational data with commerical data for deeper financial insight
- Bespoke reporting to support specific improvement initiatives
Our Clients
Wherever you are in your Redzone journey, manta is designed to add value from day one and continue supporting performance as your implementation matures.
We help teams starting out with Redzone establish clear, reliable reporting from the outset. Drawing on extensive experience with connected workforce implementations, we support correct setup, avoid common pitfalls, and provide reporting that enhances Redzone’s core capabilities from day one.
We help customers with mature deployments take their impact to the next level. manta cuts through the noise, providing targeted insights that further increase operational performance and maximise team engagement.
Trusted By
We're also proud to be a certified Redzone partner recognising both our deep expertise in the configuration of Redzone and the quality of our manta reporting.
Get in touch with our team to see manta for yourself and have an initial conversation about your reporting needs.
I have received such positive feedback from the team. Everyone that I talk to about it, they say it's amazing!
Power BI Reporting for Redzone
Considering building Power BI or Tableau dashboards on your Redzone data? Redzone gives you the ability to extract data through the Redzone Snowflake schema, but before you commit to building Redzone reporting in-house, it's worth weighing the benefits of a fully managed service like manta. We can deploy manta in a few hours, then work with your team to configure it fully and train your teams over the following weeks.
Crucially, data visualisation and reporting is only ever as good as the underlying data. That's why every manta deployment includes hands-on work to get your Redzone implementation configured optimally, drawing on our experience supporting manufacturers with Redzone across multiple sites and sectors. We've also developed a 12-point Redzone Implementation Scorecard that shows you exactly how well your current Redzone configuration is set up to drive accurate reporting and analytics.
Redzone reporting: make vs buy?
If you're deciding whether to build your own Redzone Power BI or Tableau dashboards or buy a ready-made analytics product, a few things are worth keeping in mind:
- Time to value. A purpose-built product like manta is live in hours, not the weeks or months an in-house Redzone reporting build typically takes.
- Maintenance. The Redzone Snowflake schema, your reporting needs, and Power BI itself all evolve. With manta, keeping your Redzone dashboards current and reliable is our job, not another item on your team's backlog.
- Data quality. Reports are only as good as the Redzone configuration behind them. We fix the inputs as well as the outputs, so your numbers are ones the shop floor and management actually trust.
- Manufacturing expertise. manta is built specifically for Redzone and connected-workforce data, with metrics like plan attainment, run efficiency and giveaway already modelled the way manufacturers expect.
What are manufacturing leaders saying about manta?
Don't just take our word for it. Here's what people running manufacturing operations say about manta:
It's been fantastic for me to visualise what's going on with the team. We can trend performance over time and then drill down to the line, operator, etc.
I have found manta to be a very useful tool that has helped improve visibility and understanding of performance across the business.
If you are using Redzone and want clearer, more consistent insight into operational performance, we’d love to show you how manta could benefit your team.
Contact us to book an introductory call with our team.
