Operations Home

Home is the screen most people land on after signing in — the project’s work queue, not a dashboard of charts. It answers one question: what needs my attention right now?

Before you start

Home needs a resolved project — if you have access to more than one, pick one from the project switcher first. Everything on the page is scoped to that project. With more than 12 projects, type part of a project’s code or name in the switcher to filter the list.

The work queue

The “Work queue — what needs you now” card lists five counts, worst first:

Line	What it counts	Opens
NDE backlog	Inspections awaiting a result or an NDE request	/inspections, pre-filtered
Open rejects	Rejected welds with no repair issued yet	/welds, pre-filtered to Rejected
Packages awaiting signature	Complete packages ready to sign	Not yet linked — see note below
Validation issues	Welds flagged by data validation	/welds, the ⚠ Issues lens
Queued offline writes	Changes on this device waiting to sync	Not a saved view — see the sync indicator in the header

Each line carries an icon and a soft status chip — Action needed (red), Pending (amber), or Queued (slate) — so severity never depends on color alone. A line at zero de-escalates to a green Clear chip and sinks to the bottom of the list; everything still outstanding sorts worst first, then by whatever your active layout preset (below) emphasizes.

Note

Packages awaiting signature doesn’t have a dedicated saved view to open yet — select it and you’ll see why. Queued offline writes isn’t a saved view at all; open the sync indicator in the header instead to review what’s waiting to sync.

Project weld status

Below the work queue, a single stacked bar summarizes every active weld in the project — Accepted, Pending, In repair, and Open rejects — with the headline accepted percentage beside it and a count legend underneath. Voided welds are excluded from both the bar and the percentage, so voiding a weld never inflates your numbers.

Diameter inches earned

Beside the project weld status band, a card reports the project’s earned Diameter Inch (DI) — the industry pipe-fabrication productivity unit (see the glossary). The headline is inches earned, credited once per made-good joint, with the percentage of the project’s eligible weld set beneath it. A short trend strip shows recent earned progress. Two smaller figures — rework (diameter-inches on repair welds) and open rejects — are shown separately and are never added into the earned total. The percentage is against the current eligible weld set, not a project plan or budget baseline. This is the same number shown on the weld matrix’s status rollup for any ISO in the project.

When none of the welds you can see counts toward diameter inches yet, the card says No eligible welds yet instead of showing 0″. That’s usually a brand-new project with nothing assigned to its ISOs, or one whose welds are all structural or of types that aren’t measured in diameter inches. Like every figure here, it covers only the welds your access lets you see — if your access is limited to certain contractors or weld types, a colleague with wider access may see progress where you see this message. As soon as an eligible weld is visible to you, even one whose pipe size hasn’t been entered, the card shows the earned inches as usual, starting from 0″.

This card needs a server connection — unlike the work queue and weld status band above it, it isn’t backed by your device’s offline data. If you’re offline, it shows a retry notice instead of a number; the rest of Home keeps working as usual.

How are we doing

With the QC manager layout preset (below) active, a “How are we doing” card sits directly under the diameter-inch card. It shows two quality rates over the last 30 days, each with the counts behind it and a small per-day bar chart:

Rate	What it means
Right-first-time rate	Of the welds whose first RT/UT review fell in the last 30 days, the share that passed that first review
RT/UT reject rate	Of the RT/UT inspections reviewed (passed or failed) in the last 30 days, the share that failed

Both rates come from the same server-side definitions every MaxTrax surface uses, so a rate here always matches the same rate elsewhere. A rate with nothing to measure yet shows a dash and No reviewed RT/UT inspections in the last 30 days — never 0 %.

Open the rejected-weld lens on the reject-rate tile opens the same pre-filtered Rejected weld lens the work queue’s Open rejects line opens. The right-first-time tile has no link: whether a weld passed first time is part of its review history, which the weld grid can’t filter.

The Data as of stamp at the top of the card is when the server read the figures, shown in your time zone. The card needs a server connection — offline, it says Needs a connection and the rest of Home keeps working.

Production today

A pair of cards sits below the diameter-inch card. The first, Production today, reports the diameter inches earned today, then compares the last 7 days against the 7 days before them — as a percentage, in words, and with an arrow, so the direction never depends on color alone.

A small bar chart underneath covers a wider span than the comparison does: one column per day over the last 30 days, so you can see the shape of the month behind this week’s number. A day with no work recorded is a real zero column, not a gap, so a quiet stretch reads as a quiet stretch rather than a straight line.

Two things are worth knowing about the numbers:

• Days are counted in UTC, matching the dates the diameter-inch ledger itself is built from. If you work well east or west of UTC, “today” rolls over at a different moment than your local midnight.
• These figures don’t open a saved view. Diameter inch is summed on the server and no weld or inspection grid filter reproduces it, so the card says so plainly rather than sending you to a screen showing a different number.

If there’s been no earned work in either week, the card says so instead of drawing an empty chart.

Quality pulse

The second card of the pair tracks rejects rather than progress:

Figure	What it means
Rejected diameter inches	The last 7 days against the 7 before, with a per-day trend strip
Top defect	The reject code carrying the most rejected inches, and its share of all rejected inches
Repair rate	Rework inches as a share of earned inches — for every 100″ made good, how much went back through a repair

Here a rising trend is the bad direction, the reverse of Production today — the arrow and the wording both say which way things moved. A small two-part bar shows how concentrated the rejects are: the worst code against everything else. That mix is measured over the whole project history, while the trend figures above it cover the 7-day windows — two different questions, each labelled with its own basis.

Review rejected welds at the top of the card opens the same pre-filtered Rejected weld lens the work queue’s Open rejects line opens.

If nothing has ever been rejected on the project, the card says so.

Needs a decision

Between the analytics cards and the work queue, the “Needs a decision” card ranks the three most consequential exceptions right now. It’s a shortlist, not a second work queue: the work queue lists everything waiting on you, this picks what to deal with first.

Row	Ranked on	Opens
Rejects awaiting a disposition	How many rejected welds have no repair issued	/welds, pre-filtered to Rejected
Oldest inspection is ageing	How long the oldest inspection has waited, in days	/inspections, pre-filtered and sorted oldest-first
Test packages blocked by incomplete welds	How many packages can’t be signed yet	Not yet linked — same reason as the work queue line

Every number here is the same number the work queue above it shows for the same thing — the two cards read from one shared calculation, so they can’t disagree.

Note that the backlog row ranks on age, not size. A 200-deep queue that turns over daily needs no decision; a single request sitting for six weeks does. The number the row displays is the same age it was ranked on, and the grid it opens is sorted oldest-first, so the inspection the row is talking about is the first one you see.

Inspections with no date recorded don’t count toward that age. In the inspections grid their Date shows a dash, and a date sort always lists them last, oldest-first or newest-first. If none of the inspections awaiting a result has a date, the row reads No dated inspections awaiting a result and shows how many are waiting instead of an age.

When nothing needs a decision, the card says so rather than padding itself with resolved rows.

Note

Not measured yet. Below the ranked rows, the card names any exception it can’t measure today — currently welders approaching a continuity lapse, because no project-wide welder-continuity read is available yet (that clock lives in the welder-continuity report). This is deliberate: an absent row would read as “nothing to report”, which is a different claim from “not measured”.

Layout preset

The segmented control in the page header — QC manager, NDT coordinator, or Foreman — is a curated choice, not a freeform layout builder. Selecting one changes two things: which work queue lines are visually promoted to the top, and which tab of the Recent panel (below) opens by default.

Preset	Emphasizes	Recent panel default
QC manager	Validation issues, packages awaiting signature, NDE backlog — plus the How are we doing card	Recent activity
NDT coordinator	NDE backlog	Recent activity
Foreman	Open rejects, queued offline writes	Jump back in

Your choice is remembered on this browser.

Setup checklist

Administrators see an additional project-setup checklist above the work queue while any step is incomplete — it self-retires once every step reads Done. Each step deep-links to the screen that fixes it:

Step	Done when
Project & policy	Project settings are configured
Signing policy	Report sign-off parties or approval groups are set
Reference data	Weld types, inspection types, NDE contractors, and more are loaded
Welder qualifications	Welders on the project have qualifications on record
ISOs imported	At least one ISO exists for the project
Custom fields	Project-specific custom fields have been defined
Team invited	Every invited user has activated their account

A step reading Needs attention (amber) is actionable now — for example, a pending invite or an expiring welder qualification; To do (gray) means the step hasn’t been started. The checklist is collapsible, and its collapsed state is remembered per project. Non-administrators don’t see this card.

If the project has no reference data or custom fields loaded at all, Home replaces the work queue with a “Let’s get this project set up” prompt instead — select Go to Admin to begin.

Jump back in

A tabbed Recent panel at the bottom of the page has two tabs:

• Jump back in — the ISOs you’ve recently opened, so you can return to one with a click.
• Recent activity — reserved for a future project-activity feed; today it shows an honest empty state rather than fabricated activity.

Related

• The weld matrix — where the Open rejects and Validation issues lines land.
• NDE requests — the NDE backlog line’s destination.
• Working offline — what the sync indicator and queued-writes count mean.
• Reference data — the reference-data setup-checklist step.