What is manufacturing digital signage? +
Manufacturing digital signage is a network of commercial-grade displays installed throughout a production plant, warehouse, or distribution center — replacing printed whiteboards and laminated KPI sheets with networked screens that show live production data. Typical content: OEE percentages, units-per-shift, takt time, downtime causes, incident counters, shift-handoff comms, quality + first-pass-yield, andon status, visitor wayfinding, and cafeteria menus. CrownTV ships the displays (Samsung QM-C 24/7 commercial for normal floors, QH-C heat-resistant for hot zones, IP65 industrial enclosures for wash-down areas), installs them, and connects them to your ERP, MES, or PLC layer so the floor sees the same numbers the front office does.
How much does manufacturing digital signage cost? +
Hardware ranges: ~$1,200 for a 43" Samsung QM-C production-floor panel, $2,500–$4,500 for a 65" interactive QBR-T shift-comms board, $3,000–$6,000 for a 75"+ KPI dashboard at the line entrance, plus IP65 industrial enclosures ($800–$2,000) for wash-down or paint-booth zones. Plus the CrownTV Media Player ($300–$800) and Dashboard SaaS ($20/screen/month). Multi-plant rollouts are volume-tiered — and we'll match a written competitive quote on comparable scope. See /pricing/ for the per-screen subscription plus volume-tiered hardware ranges.
Do you handle warehouse digital signage and distribution centers? +
Yes. Warehouse digital signage covers receiving-dock KPI boards, pick-rate displays at the line, dock-door wayfinding, safety + days-since-incident counters, and overhead shift-change comms. Same hardware (Samsung QM-C commercial), same Dashboard, same install crew. Most multi-plant manufacturers run a mix of plant-floor and warehouse signage on one CMS tenant.
How does it integrate with our ERP or MES system? +
Two paths. Either we pull from a reporting endpoint your ERP/MES already exposes (NetSuite SuiteAnalytics, Plex API, Tulip Tables, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Epicor), or we read tags directly from the PLC layer over OPC-UA (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi) and roll them up. The CrownTV Dashboard handles the rest — content scheduling, multi-plant rollouts, SSO. No new database. No data leaves your network unless you want it to.
Can the displays handle a factory environment — heat, dust, vibration? +
Yes. We default-spec Samsung QM-C commercial displays — 24/7 rated, 500 nits, operating range 0–40°C — for normal production floors. For dustier or more humid zones we move to the QH-C heat-resistant series. For wash-down areas, paint booths, or anywhere with direct water exposure we move to IP65-rated outdoor or industrial enclosures.
How do KPI dashboards stay live? +
Each display runs a managed media player with offline cache. If the network blips, the last good data stays on screen until the connection returns — no blank dashboards mid-shift. The CrownTV Dashboard polls every player every 60 seconds; if a player misses three checks we ship a swap inside 48 hours.
What's the SLA for production-floor displays — downtime hurts us? +
Standard SLA is 48-hour player swap, 4-hour CMS support response, 99.5% uptime per display per quarter. For Tier-1 lines we offer same-day on-site replacement in any metro we cover and 24/7 phone support. The SLA goes in the contract — same one your maintenance and IT teams already know how to manage.
Do you support multi-plant rollouts? +
Yes — that's most of what we do. One contract, one CMS tenant, one invoice. We've sequenced rollouts across 30+ sites in a single quarter using a phased install model: corporate signs off on the template, plant managers approve site surveys, our crews do a plant a week. Multi-plant pricing is volume-tiered.
