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 (indoor 4K commercial screens for normal floors, heat- and humidity-rated displays 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? +
Installed, per screen: $3,150 for a 43″ through $9,950 for a 98″ indoor commercial display, including the mount, media player, licensed install and the first year of software. Wash-down, paint-booth and other dusty or wet zones need industrial enclosures, quoted per site after the survey. Software after year one is $20/screen/month, and multi-plant rollouts get volume pricing. Per-screen pricing is on /pricing/.
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 indoor 4K commercial hardware class, 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 indoor 4K commercial displays — 24/7 rated options, 500 nits, operating range around 0–40°C — for normal production floors. For dustier, hotter, or more humid zones we move to heat- and humidity-rated commercial displays. 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, 2-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.
