Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets

The Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets tracks 15 fabrication KPIs across 5 KPI groups on 11 tabs, with month-to-date and year-to-date achievement, prior-year comparison and traffic-light status on every row. Every number is a plain worksheet formula — there is no add-on, no Apps Script and no query to refresh. Setup is a month picker and three input sheets.

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Which product is this? This is the KPI Dashboard line — a month-picker scorecard with traffic lights, a KPI Trend page and a KPI Analysis page. It is not the analytical Google Sheets Dashboards line, and it is not the Welding Shop KPI Scorecard in Google Sheets, which is a separate template with a different layout. Buy whichever fits how you report; they are complementary, not duplicates.

🔑 Key Features of the Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets

📈 15 welding KPIs in 5 groups. Production & Throughput holds 4 KPIs, Quality & Compliance 4, Cost & Efficiency 4, Delivery & Service 2 and People & Safety 1. The named metrics are Jobs Completed, Weld Metres Deposited, Weld Deposition Rate, Arc-On Time, First-Pass Weld Yield, NDT Rejection Rate, Rework Hours per Job, Welder Certification Currency, Consumable Cost / Weld Metre, Gas Cost per Job, Scrap and Offcut Rate, Machine Downtime Hours, On-Time Delivery, Quote Turnaround Time and Recordable Incident Rate.

📅 One month picker drives the whole file. Cell D6 on the KPI Dashboard tab is a dropdown of the twelve months in your reporting year. Change it and the scorecard, the seven summary cards and the entire KPI Analysis page recalculate. There is no refresh step, no pivot cache and no query to re-run.

🟢 UTB / LTB direction on every KPI. Seven KPIs are Upper-The-Better and eight are Lower-The-Better. Achievement is Actual ÷ Target for a UTB metric and Target ÷ Actual for an LTB metric, so beating a cost, downtime or cycle-time target scores above 100% exactly the way beating an output target does. Scrap, gas cost and rework are scored honestly rather than backwards.

🛑 Traffic lights you can edit. Status is On Target from 100%, At Risk from 95% to 99% and Missed below 95%. The thresholds live in the Status formulas on the KPI Dashboard tab, so you can move them to match your own governance without rebuilding anything.

📊 MTD and YTD side by side, plus prior year. Each KPI row carries Actual, Target, Achievement %, Status, Prior Yr and a vs-PY arrow for the selected month, and the same six columns again for the year to date. The arrow shows raw direction while its colour shows whether that direction is good for that KPI — which is why a falling consumable cost shows a green down-arrow.

📦 What’s Inside the Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets

The file has 11 tabs: Home, KPI Dashboard, KPI Trend, KPI Analysis, KPI Input – Actual, KPI Input – Target, KPI Input – PY, KPI Definition, Support, Read Me and Get More Templates. Six of them are shown below.

Page 1: Home

The landing tab. Three headline cards read 15 KPIs, MTD + YTD and 100% formula-driven, followed by linked shortcuts to the dashboard pages, the three input sheets and the reference tabs, and a three-step start guide.

Page 2: KPI Dashboard

The scorecard. Seven summary cards across the top show Total KPIs Tracked, On Target (YTD), At Risk (YTD), Missed (YTD), Improving vs PY (MTD), Avg Achievement (MTD) and Avg Achievement (YTD). Below them, one row per KPI carries its group, unit, UTB/LTB type and the full MTD and YTD blocks.

Page 3: KPI Trend

One KPI at a time, picked from a dropdown. An attribute strip shows KPI Group, Unit, Type, Owner, Priority and Frequency, with the metric’s formula and definition underneath, then a twelve-month table of MTD and YTD actual, target, prior year, achievement and status. Two charts follow: MTD Trend and YTD Trend, each plotting actual columns against a target line and a prior-year line.

Page 4: KPI Analysis

Group roll-up and ranking. A Performance by KPI Group table counts On Target, At Risk and Missed KPIs per group with average MTD and YTD achievement, beside an Average YTD Achievement by KPI Group chart. Top 5 and Bottom 5 Performing KPIs tables rank every metric on year-to-date achievement, so an LTB metric that beats its target ranks near the top.

Page 5: KPI Input – Actual

Your data. Twelve month blocks, each with an MTD and a YTD column for all 15 KPIs, in editable yellow cells. Cell E3 is the first month of the reporting year — change it and the Target sheet, the PY sheet, the month dropdown and every sheet title re-base. KPI Input – Target and KPI Input – PY are identical sheets for this year’s target and last year’s result.

Page 6: KPI Definition

The master list every other tab follows. Ten columns hold KPI Number, KPI Group, KPI Name, Unit, Formula, Definition, Type, Owner, Priority and Frequency — for example Weld Deposition Rate is filler metal deposited divided by arc hours worked, owned by the Welding Engineer at High priority. The sheets are wired for 22 KPI rows and 15 are filled, so adding a metric needs no formula work.

📊 Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets vs. Microsoft Excel Dashboard vs. Paid Shop-Floor SaaS — Where This Fits

For a fabrication shop that wants a monthly KPI review its foreman and its owner can both open, without wiring sensors to every power source, the Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets sits in the sweet spot.

👥 Who This Template Is For — and Who It’s Not For

✅ This template is built for:

• Owners and general managers of welding and metal-fabrication job shops with roughly 3–60 welders, who report monthly rather than by the shift
• Production supervisors and welding engineers who already pull arc hours, weld metres and NDT results out of another system and need one place to score them
• Quality managers who want first-pass yield, NDT rejection and rework hours read against a target instead of as raw counts
• Fabricators preparing a monthly management pack or an owner’s review deck who want MTD, YTD and last year on one screen

❌ This template is NOT for:

• Anyone needing job-level or weld-level records — there is no job log, no weld map, no WPS/PQR register and no welder qualification database in this file. You enter one MTD and one YTD figure per KPI per month
• Safety and OSHA recordkeeping. Recordable Incident Rate is a single TRIR number you type; this is not a safety management or injury-recordkeeping system and it does not produce OSHA 300/300A forms or case records
• Shops wanting live machine monitoring, automatic arc-time capture or ERP integration — nothing here connects to a power source, a plasma table or your ERP
• Teams that need multi-year history in one file; the workbook reports one reporting year at a time against the prior year

⚙️ How to Use the Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets

1. Open the PDF in your download and click the Google Sheets link to make your own editable copy in Drive.
2. Open KPI Definition and edit the 15 KPI rows — name, unit, formula, definition, UTB or LTB type, owner, priority. Every other tab follows this list.
3. Set cell E3 on KPI Input – Actual to the first month of your reporting year. The whole file re-bases automatically.
4. Type your monthly numbers into the yellow cells on KPI Input – Actual, KPI Input – Target and KPI Input – PY. Each has an MTD and a YTD column per month.
5. Pick a month in cell D6 on KPI Dashboard. The scorecard, the seven cards and the KPI Analysis page follow it instantly.
6. Use the dropdown on KPI Trend to inspect any single KPI across twelve months with both charts.

💼 Real-World Use Cases

Dan owns a 14-welder structural fabrication shop. On the first Monday of each month he types twelve numbers into the input sheets, sets the month picker, and walks his foreman through the scorecard. Arc-On Time sitting at Missed for two months running is what got him to move the tacking bench, and he pays nothing per user to show it to anyone.

Priya is the quality manager at a pressure-vessel fabricator. She lives on the KPI Trend page, flipping between NDT Rejection Rate and First-Pass Weld Yield to see whether a bad month was a blip or a slope, and she uses the Bottom 5 Performing KPIs table on KPI Analysis to pick which two metrics get attention that quarter.

Marco estimates and plans for a job shop of 30. Quote Turnaround Time and On-Time Delivery are the two rows he owns, and because both sit in the Delivery & Service group he can read the group’s average achievement in one cell before the Monday planning meeting.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What KPIs does the Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets track?

It tracks 15 KPIs in 5 groups: Jobs Completed, Weld Metres Deposited, Weld Deposition Rate, Arc-On Time, First-Pass Weld Yield, NDT Rejection Rate, Rework Hours per Job, Welder Certification Currency, Consumable Cost / Weld Metre, Gas Cost per Job, Scrap and Offcut Rate, Machine Downtime Hours, On-Time Delivery, Quote Turnaround Time and Recordable Incident Rate.

How long does setup take?

Under 10 minutes. Copy the sheet from the link in the PDF, set the reporting-year start in cell E3 on KPI Input – Actual, type your monthly numbers into the three yellow input sheets and pick a month on KPI Dashboard. Nothing needs installing and no add-on is required.

Is this a safety or OSHA recordkeeping system?

No. The Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets carries one safety KPI, Recordable Incident Rate, as a monthly TRIR figure you enter yourself. It holds no incident log, no case records and no OSHA 300 or 300A forms, and it is not a substitute for a safety management system.

Can I add or rename KPIs?

Yes. Add, rename or clear a row on the KPI Definition tab and every other sheet follows automatically. The workbook is wired for 22 KPI rows and 15 are filled, so the seven spare rows are already live and need no formula editing at all.

How does this compare with paid shop-floor software?

Tools like Tulip, MachineMetrics or Fulcrum capture machine data automatically and cost roughly $40–150 per user per month. The Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Google Sheets is $8.99 once and expects you to type monthly figures — it reports KPIs rather than collecting them.

Does it calculate year-to-date for me?

No, and that is deliberate. Both MTD and YTD are stored on the input sheets so you keep control of how your year to date is defined. Volumes accumulate and rates stay running averages, which is why no percentage in this file climbs to 1,100% by December.

How is this different from the Welding Shop KPI Scorecard in Google Sheets?

They are two different templates. This KPI Dashboard has a month picker, seven summary cards, a KPI Trend page and a KPI Analysis page. The Welding Shop KPI Scorecard in Google Sheets uses its own layout, and many shops own both.

👤 About the Author

Built by PK — Microsoft Certified Professional with 15+ years of Excel, Google Sheets and Power BI experience. Founder of NextGenTemplates, reaching 300K+ subscribers across YouTube channels (@PK-AnExcelExpert, @NextGenTemplates, @NeoTechNavigators). Every template is hand-built and tested before release.

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Also available as: the same 15-KPI dashboard is published for two other tools — the Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Excel and the Welding Shop KPI Dashboard in Power BI. Pick the tool your team already opens.

Related but different: the Welding Shop KPI Scorecard in Google Sheets and the Welding Shop KPI Scorecard in Excel are a separate scorecard line for the same trade.

Other trades: the same KPI dashboard build exists for the HVAC Contractor, Electrical Contractor, Roofing Contractor, Plumbing Business and Painting Contractor. Browse the whole Google Sheets template catalogue for more.

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📅 Last updated: September 2026