Design and Development of an MIS Dashboard for a Battery Pack Manufacturing Facility A Management Information Systems Perspective on Executive Decision-Support in Indian Manufacturing

Abstract

Battery pack manufacturing is a safety-critical, energy-intensive and economically sensitive process in the Indian manufacturing landscape. Operational data on production, quality, maintenance, cost, energy, inventory, traceability and environment are typically scattered across separate functional reports, delaying executive review and weakening cross-functional accountability. This paper presents the design and development of a plant-level Management Information System (MIS) dashboard for a commercial battery pack assembly plant. Using a Business Requirement Document (BRD), benchmarking and exploratory secondary research as primary inputs, the proposed dashboard integrates eight management dimensions: production/OEE, quality, maintenance, safety, cost/energy, traceability, inventory and environment, health and safety (EHS). Adopting a management-oriented design-science approach, the study benchmarks recent peer-reviewed literature (2021–2026) to derive KPI commonality, battery-specific measures, formula governance and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) linkages. The central argument is that dashboard value is created not by visualization alone but by clearly defined KPI formulas, ownership, data-freshness rules, exception handling and traceability to source records. The result is a practical framework that turns distributed shop-floor data into a one-page decision-support system, with future scope for AI and digital-twin integration.