What is currently your go-to solution
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Luke van Enkhuizen
08/20/2025, 6:14 PMWhat is currently your go-to solution for a (very) simple MES interface? I want to create a simple UI where operators can see their workload, maybe drill down to a schedule, and ideally start/stop their job. Nothing fancy. On top of UMH. What would you recommend?
Luke van Enkhuizen
08/20/2025, 6:15 PMI looked at Grafana but found a bit limited. Tried tinkering with Appsmith but didn't seem to fnd my way around (maybe I need to spend more time on it). Also considered even wilder ideas: publish sink-out to Supabase and connect Lovable.Dev to it -> vibe-code it and let customer just create whatever they want 😛
Luke van Enkhuizen
08/20/2025, 6:15 PMIt's for a 30 people small shop, just so to get an idea of the scale (no enterprise requiremnts whatsoever)
Luke van Enkhuizen
08/20/2025, 6:19 PMDashboard 2.0? https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard
Luke van Enkhuizen
08/20/2025, 6:30 PMas far as I got:
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/b1cd9127-28a1-4c10-9118-5dbc01126fe5
Seems dashboard 2.0 is the way? Anybody got some templates to share? 🙂
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Alex
08/20/2025, 7:29 PMActually grafana wit the business panels
Alex
08/20/2025, 7:29 PMWorks super well and gives your for free a lot of features regarding user management
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Diederik
08/20/2025, 10:02 PMi hae good experiences with nodered dashboard (2) for a small MES
Diederik
08/20/2025, 10:05 PMthis for example is pallet tracking (internal logistics)
connected to a database and a printer
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1407789862131859466/1407847964222820522/image.png?ex=68a79817&is=68a64697&hm=c55ad110a8a9ac920eec2e620fed6f686fdb7ce83409eef7e6acf1162f188080&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1407789862131859466/1407847964499640371/image.png?ex=68a79817&is=68a64697&hm=72f2bcef994b7653198f68bd9e9d13ee1cb899495f47d63eabf82f362b873759&
Diederik
08/20/2025, 10:06 PM(yes, we still do paper product tracking in our factory; its obligated by law)
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Jermuk
08/21/2025, 5:37 AMI spent so many hours on this, and it is either Grafana or your own self programmed dashboard (which might then struggle with security etc). To compensate, you can split up the project in “providing API” and then “doing the UI”.
But one of our customers did also use AI to generate a quite impressive Grafana dashboard, and there you don’t have to worry about security etc and only about visualisation