[{"_1":2,"_3":-5,"_4":-5},"loaderData",{"_5":6,"_7":8},"actionData","errors","root",{"_28":-5,"_38":-5,"_39":40,"_41":42,"_43":44,"_45":46,"_47":48,"_49":50,"_51":52,"_53":54,"_55":56,"_57":58},"routes/_store+/_readers+/email_author.$slug/route",{"_9":10,"_11":-5},"book",{"_12":13,"_14":15,"_16":17,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":23},"currentUser","id","Z2lkOi8vbGVhbnB1Yi9TdG9yZTo6Qm9va1Byb2R1Y3QvODAxNTc","title","Power BI for Plant Managers","state","published","contactAuthorMethod","email","aboutText","

Stop finding out about your plant's problems a day too late.

It's Monday morning. Your director asks why Line 3 lost four hours on Friday's night shift. Someone flips through a report, reads a number… and nobody knows the cause. The meeting moves on without an answer, and the same problem happens again tonight.

The problem isn't missing data. Your plant is drowning in it. The problem is that it lives in twenty Excel files, gets updated by hand, and arrives too late to change anything. Power BI solves exactly that — and this package shows you how, step by step, with no code and without depending on IT.

This is NOT just the book. It's a complete system to stand up your first dashboard in 30 days.

📦 What's included

1. The complete book in PDF (46 pages, ready to read and print) A practical guide written by a plant manager, not a data analyst. Every chapter ends in a visible deliverable, with real plant cases and a 30-day rollout plan.

🎯 By the end you'll be able to

Build dashboards with red-amber-green traffic lights anyone reads in two seconds.
Stand up a full OEE dashboard (Availability, Performance, Quality) with no complex code.
Create quality dashboards (defect Pareto) and production dashboards (plan vs actual).
Set up alerts that tell you when a KPI goes out of range.
Use DAX with only the measures you need, ready to paste.
Share it all with your team on a screen, a phone, or a TV on the plant floor.

👷 Who it's for

Plant managers, coordinators, supervisors and manufacturing engineers who know the operation cold but were never trained as data professionals. You don't need to be one. You just need your numbers to work for you.

✍️ About the author

Rubén López — an Industrial Engineer with an MBA, PMP and Lean Six Sigma, with 15 years in FMCG manufacturing leading quality and production teams. He learned Power BI to solve his own operational pain, and here he shows you exactly how.

No budget. No servers. No IT permission. Just Power BI Desktop (free) and the data you already have.

Get the package, import the practice dataset, and have your first dashboard running this week.

","authors",[24],{"_12":25,"_26":27,"_28":29},"Z2lkOi8vbGVhbnB1Yi9TdG9yZTo6UHJvZHVjdEF1dGhvci84NTcxOQ","name","Ruben Lopez","user",{"_30":31},"avatar",{"_32":33,"_34":35,"_36":37},"url","https://d39qdlcrvnra4b.cloudfront.net/avatars/3738136/medium/avatar.jpg?1781806569","styleName","medium","exists",true,"shoppingCartId","shoppingCart",{"_12":71,"_72":73,"_74":37,"_75":76,"_77":78,"_79":80,"_81":37},"locale","en","readerTheme","light","constants",{"_69":70},"publishers",{"_65":66,"_67":68},"learnerOrganizations",[],"needsLocaleCookieSync",false,"announcements",{"_59":60,"_61":-5},"sentryEnvironment","production","sentryRelease","cce21d19a0d9612afdbced29947de1d8868e588b","announcement_store",{"_62":52,"_63":64},"announcement_authors","flag","text","

Kick off your book project, get started with GhostAI, get better at marketing, or spend the day doing all three! Free live workshops on Zoom. Saturday, June 27, 2026.

\n","companies",[],"universities",[],"paypalClientId","AX53Cwz8jR6rVVzzZiZNWWXl0dGagi-GZrjG-S3Ua14E5nrKMn7DxDQ730O4R8LusLPp49ALn6aRVaEy","no-cart","count",0,"free","updatedAt","","paymentGateway","STRIPE","cartItems",[],"loading"]

Email the Author