What are some operational dashboard examples?

There is no single operations dashboard, the right one depends on what you manage. The most common examples we build for operations managers are: an operations metrics dashboard, which puts core KPIs like throughput, on-time rate, backlog, cycle time, and cost per unit in one place, each trending against target; an HR operations dashboard, covering headcount, coverage versus demand, shift scheduling, onboarding status, and attrition so you can staff correctly across teams and locations; an operational risk reporting dashboard, which surfaces SLA breaches, safety incidents, compliance gaps, and control failures before they escalate, with alerts on the metrics that matter; a multi-location operations dashboard that rolls up every site, team, and shift into one view and lets you drill into a single location; a real-time throughput dashboard for live production, orders, queues, and transactions where delays cost money; and a cost and efficiency dashboard that ties operational output to spend, cost per order, labor efficiency, and margin by location. Most teams don't pick just one, they blend several. The key is that each of these should pull from the same connected data so the numbers reconcile, rather than living in separate spreadsheets that never agree.