The backlog report said flat for 8 weeks.
The aged work orders in that same backlog had tripled.
Nobody flagged it. The number was technically correct. The story underneath it was a planning collapse in slow motion.
That's the problem with most maintenance dashboards. They show you the number. They don't read the pattern.
So I built what I wished existed.
Plant Pulse Report
A free Claude skill that turns your raw KPI data into a cited, printable executive briefing. Not another dashboard. Drop two CSVs — KPIs and assets — and get a full plant-pulse brief back.
Not a dashboard. A briefing.
Drop two CSVs. Get back:
Executive summary with forward signals
One paragraph that names the pattern — plus a projection (e.g. at current growth, Reactive Work crosses 35% in 3 periods).
4 KPI cards with sparklines and status badges
Value, trend, target, and benchmark citation for each metric. Color-coded to the SMRP severity threshold.
Top 3 prioritized actions with playbook codes
Every action maps to a named play (PB-RX-001, PB-BL-001 …) with expected impact range and cited basis.
Deep-dives for every concern area
Asset- or area-level narrative that names the signature, the root-cause hypothesis, and the corrective play.
Every benchmark cited
Nothing is asserted without a source. SMRP, Palmer, Moore, Moubray, ISO 14224. No AI slop.
Self-contained HTML + one-click PDF
Works offline. Printable. Share the file, not a login.
“Twelve KPIs supported. Ten named playbooks. Eight narrative patterns, each one a real data signature tied to a real source. Self-contained HTML. One-click PDF. Works offline. Free.”
No invented numbers. No AI slop. If the brief says a pattern is forming, it points at the rows in your CSV that formed it and the published standard that names it.