Comments on: Conditional Stacked Clustered Column Chart with Targets

By: Excel Graph: how can I show two values in the same bar? Not using stacked? Drija

Excel Graph: how can I show two values in the same bar? Not using stacked? Drija — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:31:55 +0000

[...] inspiration for the ‘look’ has come from Jon peltier’s site, called Conditional Stacked Clustered Column Chart with Targets. I don’t need anything as [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:58:20 +0000

Bob - Creating dashboards is a highly individualized activity. There are off-the-shelf products, such as the workbooks at ExcelUser.com, but even these need a certain amount of tweaking to set them up. I don't think bar or column charts would be as helpful as an XY chart that shows the state of a furnace over the past few hours, or during the duration of youf fab process. You could use two series, one for the target setting, and the other for the measured value. A bar chart would only show you what the condition is at the most recent point. ExcelUser.com has articles and examples, as well as products, that will get you started with more informative displays. ExcelUser's focus is on business, but the principles that make a good business dashboard also make a good process control dashboard.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:21:39 +0000

Your dashboards are very interesting. Trying to put together a way to monitor tools (furnaces) in a semiconductor fab to make microchips. Like to put together the status of several furnaces during their process cycles in horizontal bar graph format… with real time, i.e., process cycles stacked during a 24 hr period with time at the x-axis. As the time of day progresses, actual completion (and time to go) can be quickly seen at several furnaces… updating every three minutes or so. I’m assuming I can link to the clock in the computer.

Got anything like that… ?