Oct. 14, 2025 – Poka, the world’s leading connected worker platform for enterprise manufacturing, has launched Huddle Boards, a revolutionary new tool for the factory floor that brings the power of digital visual management to shift meetings, team huddles and tiered meetings, to enhance communication and improve issue resolution. It will transform traditional stand-up meetings that have relied on physical whiteboards, by improving access to operational data and insights.
Poka Huddle Boards are designed for team leads, supervisors, department heads and plant directors who need to manage daily operations while aligning teams around performance objectives. Daily huddles are imperative on a well-connected factory floor. These brief team meetings, often near the start of a shift, are a vital platform for managers to highlight gaps in productivity, safety or quality, and align on priorities.
With Poka Huddle Boards, companies can eliminate inefficiencies by creating a shared digital hub for KPIs, issues, escalations, tasks and standard work. Huddle Boards begin by consolidating all relevant information into one real-time, digital dashboard—enabling faster decision-making, better communication and more effective daily management.
Users of Poka Huddle Boards can leverage prioritization and escalation tools, and agenda templates to maximize the efficiency of meetings.
“With Huddle Boards, managers finally get the visibility and accountability that traditional whiteboards could never deliver,” said Alex Leclerc, CEO at Poka. “Every issue, action and escalation is tracked in real time and historically, so nothing slips through the cracks. It transforms daily management into a transparent, data-driven process that everyone can rely on."
Key features of Poka Huddle Boards:
- Unified Digital Board Interface: A single view for KPIs (Safety, Quality, Delivery, People), open issues, escalation items, actions and forms.
- Pillars and sections: Customizable pillars to reflect plant priorities; thresholds and color-coded alerts for out-of-spec conditions.
- Real-time data integration: Embed analytics dashboards to pull in data from other core systems such as MES & ERP.
- Task and issue tracking: Structured sections to manage tasks, open issues, escalations and their current status with accountability ownership.
- Agenda and attendance tools: Define meeting structure, assign facilitators and track attendance and completion.
- Cross-tier escalation and context passing: Ensure seamless upward communication from line-level huddles to higher tiers (L2/L3), preserving data context.
- Historical and monthly view: Track day-to-day performance trends to identify patterns, outliers and CI opportunities.
- Device flexibility: Accessible via tablets, digital displays and desktops—at the line or in the boardroom.
A comprehensive Connected Worker solution
With this latest innovation, Poka further strengthens its position as the most comprehensive connected worker platform on the market. By closing the loop between frontline training, knowledge sharing, and daily management practices, Poka ensures that continuous improvement becomes an organic, sustainable part of factory culture. Huddle Boards are a natural progression of Poka, as they leverage all the data and actions already captured in the system—making it the definitive solution for manufacturers committed to operational excellence.
Target markets and availability
This new feature will serve manufacturers in a range of industries including Food and Beverage, Automotive, Electronics, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Consumer Packaged Goods and more. Poka Huddle Boards are available now.