Wow Nate, that is awesome.
Yep, the app shows the % remaining (along with temps, timer, etc.), and is accessible anywhere I have an internet connection.
Pretty nifty, no reason it can’t be done in other environments.
Great man, thanks for this. Was looking for a similar solution and happened to read this. Glad!
Question: Do you have the folks periodically update it based on an approximate estimation of fullness?
Like if I see the bin, which looks half full update the dashboard with 0.5 etc.?
Reason I ask is it can move very fast and wonder what do you do to keep it sustainable?
Or maybe everytime there is a pick ticket for a particular bin the picker updates it?
Yes, my goal is to periodically update the bin fullness. Perhaps monthly a user will casually browse the bins and note how full they are. They keeps notes on a simple notepad, then transcribe it into the dashboard later. This is plenty of data for us for now. Considering we had no idea about how full a bin was previously, at least this is something. 
Good Luck!
Ah cool. Thanks!
I am yet to put this all together and see it functioning on our end.
If you can share a pic or something of your dashboard that will be great. Thanks in advance!
This got back-burnered for me, so I don’t have a working version up right now. But I know how easy it was to get it going. Once Kinetic is a bit more fleshed out and stable I will start this up again. I’ll post back once I have a final version.
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Just curious how you replenish the bins…possibly using KanBan?
In our case, bins are only filled by someone receiving material into them. At the point of receiving, they don’t see the bin, and so they don’t know the fullness of it. They normally just pick a bin and hope for enough room. If it’s too full, sometimes things get stacked on top. I don’t think our materials are consistent enough to use a kanban process. But I am no expert in that stuff!
Sorry, poor wording on my part…
I meant to ask how inventory is consumed & PO’s are created?
From you original post I imagined something like this
- part(s) stored in multiple bins in your shop.
- personnel can take part(s) as needed from the most convenient bin location?
(why you might not know how “full/empty” an individual bin is)? - Job Mtl’s may be included on methods and backflushed
- PO’s suggestions are generated
( which finally got me wondering about KanBan )
I don’t think I know enough to answer, Bruce! I’ll do some research. I know that when people are looking at a pick list to get a particular material, they are directed to a particular lot number (warehouse and bin and lot). They technically can use any matching part for the material, but they have to note the lot they used the material from.
I don’t think we use PO suggestions, but I am not very familiar with the PO side.
OK thanks… I just got curious about the underlying conditions after reading the topic.
Started thinking they might be “interesting”.