---
alias: user-guide-business-intelligence-dashboard-step-cycle-time
grafana_json: /Library/Build/ConfigFiles/Grafana/MES/dashboards/StepCycleTime.json
tags:
- dashboards
- performance
- step
description: "This dashboard analyzes production step cycle times, revealing process inefficiencies and performance benchmarks"
---

# Step Cycle Time

## Overview

The **Step Cycle Time** dashboard provides insights into the time required to process materials across different production steps. It enables detection of inefficiencies and benchmarking of process performance.

## Folder

Performance

## Database

- DWH (queried via Cube using GraphQL).  
- CDM (queried via OData) for filters.

## Data

- Cycle Time (s)
- Average Cycle Time (s)
- Minimum and Maximum Cycle Time (s)

## Example

![Example of the Step Cycle Time dashboard](../images/step_cycle_time_distribution.png)
![Example of the Step Cycle Time dashboard](../images/step_cycle_time_cycle_time.png)
![Example of the Step Cycle Time dashboard](../images/step_cycle_time_information.png)
![Example of the Step Cycle Time dashboard](../images/step_cycle_time_history.png)

## Data Breakdown

| KPI | Description | Formula | Datasource |
| --- | ----------- | ------- | ---------- |
| **Cycle Time (s)** | Time spent by a unit of material to complete a production step. | Total time of the material in a step (`material_movement.cycle_time`) | `material_movement` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |
| **Average Cycle Time (s)** | Average time taken to process materials in a step. | Sum of total cycle time / Total number of materials | `material_movement` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |
| **Minimum Cycle Time (s)** | Shortest cycle time recorded for a product in the step. | Minimum value of `cycle_time` | `material_movement` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |
| **Maximum Cycle Time (s)** | Longest cycle time recorded for a product in the step. | Maximum value of `cycle_time` | `material_movement` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |

## Data Visualization

| Panel | Description | Threshold Values | Datasource |
|-------|-------------|------------------|------------|
| **Cycle Time Distribution** | Boxplot showing cycle time distribution per product, with median, quartiles, and outliers. | Outliers are highlighted as scatter points. | `material_movement.cycle_time` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |
| **Cycle Time Table** | Tabular view showing per-day cycle time statistics (average, minimum, maximum) by step, product, and material form. | N/A | `material_movement` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |
| **Cycle Time Trend per Product** | Time-series panel for each selected product, showing the evolution of average, minimum, and maximum cycle times per step. | Cycle Times as low as possible. | `material_movement` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |
| **Material Step Cycle Time History** | Detailed table including cycle time history by day, facility, area, step, product, material, form, type, units, and shift. | N/A | `material_movement` from [[user-guide-materialcube]] |

## Entity Filters

### Single selection

- Enterprise  
- Site  
- Facility  

### Multiple/All selection

- Area  
- Product  
- Step  
- Material  

{% include-markdown 'includes/pages/dashboards_filter_options.md' %}