Collaboration and Meeting Tool for Manufacturing Workers

Huddle Boards eliminate inefficiencies by creating a shared digital hub for KPIs, issues, escalations, tasks, and standard work - consolidating all relevant information and promoting faster decision-making, better communication, and more effective daily management.
Nov. 18, 2025
3 min read
Poka
Poka Huddle Board.

The Poka Huddle Board provides a central hub for critical operational data to be easily accessible in a real-time, digital dashboard.

POKA, developer of connected worker platforms for enterprise manufacturing, launched a new tool for the factory floor that brings digital visual management to shift meetings, team huddles, and tiered meetings, to enhance communication and improve issue resolution. The Huddle Boards “will transform traditional stand-up meetings that have relied on physical whiteboards, by improving access to operational data and insights,” it claims.

Poka Huddle Boards are designed for team leads, supervisors, department heads, and plant directors who need to manage daily operations while aligning teams around performance objectives. Daily huddles are necessary on a well-connected factory floor, often near the start of a shift. These appointments allow managers to highlight gaps in productivity, safety or quality, and align their work crews’ priorities.

With Poka Huddle Boards, manufacturing teams can eliminate inefficiencies by creating a shared digital hub for KPIs, issues, escalations, tasks, and standard work. Huddle Boards consolidate all relevant information into one real-time, digital dashboard—enabling faster decision-making, better communication, and more effective daily management.

Users of Poka Huddle Boards can leverage prioritization and escalation tools, and agenda templates to maximize the efficiency of meetings.  

“With Huddle Boards, managers finally get the visibility and accountability that traditional whiteboards could never deliver,” stated Poka CEO Alex Leclerc. “Every issue, action, and escalation is tracked in real-time and historically, so nothing slips through the cracks. It transforms daily management into a transparent, data-driven process that everyone can rely on.”

Features include:

  • A unified digital board interface that presents a single view for KPIs (safety, quality, delivery, people), open issues, escalation items, actions, and forms.
  • Pillars and sections, which are customizable to reflect plant priorities; thresholds and color-coded alerts for out-of-spec conditions.
  • Real-time data integration means that analytics dashboards can pull in data from other core systems, such as MES and ERP.
  • Task and issue tracking helps managers to structure sections to manage tasks, open issues, escalations, and their current status with accountability ownership.
  • Agenda and attendance tools define meeting structures, assign facilitators, and track attendance and completion.
  • Cross-tier escalation and context passing ensures seamless upward communication from line-level huddles to higher tiers (L2/L3), preserving data context.
  • Historical and monthly view tracks day-to-day performance trends to identify patterns, outliers, and CI opportunities.
  • Device flexibility means the dashboard is accessible via tablets, digital displays, and desktops at the line or in the office/boardroom.

By closing the loop between frontline training, knowledge sharing, and daily management practices, Poka ensures that continuous improvement becomes an organic, sustainable part of factory culture. Huddle Boards are a natural progression of Poka, as they leverage all the data and actions already captured in the system—making it the definitive solution for manufacturers committed to operational excellence.

Learn more at www.poka.io/en/digital-whiteboards.