How to Build an End-to-End Power BI Project with DAX Suggestion

Microsoft

May 06, 2023

DAX is now your Friend

Learning and understanding DAX in Power BI can come with some challenges especially for Beginners. What if you can write DAX with just natural language, Isn't that awesome?

Let's analyze the magic happening in the image below.

1. Write what you want to achieve in natural language and the AI automatically generate the DAX function to achieve it

2. If you notice, I intentionally misspelt "Total" by writing "Toal" yet, it understood what I am trying to do.

Now imagine what you will learn going through this live session with us.

This session focuses on helping you to improve your DAX knowledge and skill.

We will do this by working on a full Power BI Report project and use the new AI capabilities in DAX to get this done.

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We Have a Challenge for You

Report Name: Optimizing Production Performance in a Manufacturing Industry

In a manufacturing company, ensuring efficient production performance is crucial for meeting customer demands, optimizing resources, and maximizing profitability. The Production Performance Dashboard in Power BI is designed to address this need by providing valuable insights into production performance across various dimensions.

The manufacturing company's management team can utilize the Production Performance Dashboard to monitor and analyze key production metrics, identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions to optimize operations. The dashboard offers a comprehensive view of production performance, enabling stakeholders to assess overall production efficiency and identify areas for improvement.

Key Features and Benefits:

Production Monitoring: The dashboard provides real-time visibility into production activities, including work orders, work order routing, and production quantities. Managers can easily track the progress of each work order and identify any delays or issues affecting production schedules.
Performance Metrics: The dashboard presents key performance indicators (KPIs) such as production output, cycle time, and yield. These metrics allow management to assess the efficiency of production processes, identify areas of improvement, and set performance targets for continuous enhancement.
Root Cause Analysis: With the ability to drill down into detailed production data, the dashboard enables users to investigate the root causes of production issues. By analyzing factors such as machine downtime, resource allocation, or material shortages, the company can take proactive measures to mitigate risks and optimize production performance.
Historical Analysis: The dashboard includes historical data analysis capabilities, allowing users to evaluate production trends and identify patterns over time. This helps in identifying seasonal variations, predicting demand fluctuations, and making informed decisions regarding capacity planning and resource allocation.
Interactive Visualizations: The dashboard utilizes interactive visualizations such as charts, graphs, and tables to present production data in a clear and intuitive manner. Users can filter and slice the data based on various criteria, such as product, production line, or time period, to gain deeper insights and identify actionable opportunities for improvement.

Objective: To provide insights into production performance by various categories and time periods.

Data Sources: AdventureWorks2019 database tables - Production.Product, Production.BillOfMaterials, Production.WorkOrder, and Production.WorkOrderRouting.

There is a video guide at the bottom of this page

Report Pages:

Overview: This page will provide an overall view of production performance. It will display a KPI card showing total units produced for the selected time period and a line chart showing production trend over time, we will then use Key Influencers + Anomaly to detect any noticeable trends.
Production by Product: This page will display production by product. It will have a column chart visual showing production by product and a table visual displaying product details and production performance.
Production by Work Order: This page will display production by work order. It will have a table visual displaying work order details and production performance.
Production by Work Order Routing: This page will display production by work order routing. It will have a table visual displaying work order routing details and production performance.
Production by Date: This page will display production by date. It will have a line chart visual showing production trend over time and a table visual displaying production by year, quarter, and month.

Filters:

Date range filter to select the time period for which production data needs to be displayed.
Product filter to select the product for which production data needs to be displayed.

The Production Performance Dashboard report will help the production team to understand production performance by various categories and time periods, which will enable them to take data-driven decisions and improve production performance.

Now is your time to put this skill to use