SM & MB
Skills Matrix & Manning Board
Real‑time visibility of skills, capability and resource risk
In many organisations, a Skills Matrix is still a paper document or spreadsheet that only appears once a year at audit time. It’s not an up‑to‑date tool for managing risk, planning training or maximising the potential of your people and your business.
The Iter Digital Skills Matrix & Manning Board gives you a live, simple view of current capability across your organisation, clearly showing where gaps exist and allowing you to plan how to close them – every day, not just at audit time.
Skills Matrix
A clear view of who is trained, at what level, and where risks exist. The Skills Matrix provides instant visibility of skills across individuals, processes, departments and sites, making versatility risks and training gaps easy to understand and act upon.
Key capabilities:
- Skills tied to individual processes, departments and sites
- Support for simple yes/no skills or more detailed, level‑based competence
- Clear visual measures of skill coverage and versatility risk
- Simple view of who is trained, in training or planned to be trained
Training & competence records
Each skill links directly to a detailed training record, giving you both operational confidence and robust audit evidence.
- Detailed records for every training event
- Clearly defined expiry and retraining dates
- Storage of supporting documentation such as certificates
- Full historical records showing individual skill progression
These records support audit requirements while enabling deliberate, structured development of capability across your workforce.
Manning Board
Assign people to work areas with clarity and confidence. When paired with the Skills Matrix, the Manning Board allows supervisors to allocate people to work areas for each shift or day based on verified competence – not assumptions or outdated information.
What the Manning Board provides:
- Clear visibility of who is assigned to work where
- Immediate indication if untrained or under‑trained people are allocated
- Flags for people assigned to multiple areas
- Clearly defined supervisor responsibility for each area
The result is clearer communication on the shop floor and a reliable audit trail of who worked where, when, and at what skill level.
Reporting & Insight
Near real‑time risk awareness and long‑term capability planning.
The reporting tools bring skills and manning data together, providing both immediate operational insight and longer‑term strategic visibility.
- Near real‑time monitoring of manning and resource risk
- Identification of areas with the highest versatility risk
- Visibility of expiring or expired skills
- Historical manning audits for compliance and investigation
- Insight into individual progression and future training needs
This allows teams to respond quickly to today’s risks while planning capability for tomorrow.
Lean Production System
Improving operational knowledge, behaviours, and outcomes
By improved data collection and reporting, increased visibility and prioritisation of issues, and collaborative working.
