The standard Odoo Shop Floor displays every Manufacturing Order as a flat scrollable grid. When a team runs dozens of orders simultaneously, finding a specific product or understanding what is blocked, in progress, or waiting becomes a manual search exercise - slowing down supervisors and shop floor operators alike.

• All orders in one undifferentiated grid - no visual separation by product, status, or work center
• Supervisors must scan every card to understand production load per work center
• No instant view of how many orders are in each status or priority tier
• Operators lose time searching for the cards relevant to their station
• No way to spot bottlenecks or imbalanced workloads at a glance
• Standard Odoo filters narrow the list but do not group visually into columns

This module adds a Group By button directly in the Shop Floor toolbar. One click opens a dropdown - select Product, Status, Priority, or Work Center. The grid immediately reorganises into horizontal scrollable columns, one per unique value, each with a sticky header showing the group name and a live card count badge. Switch back to the default flat view instantly with No Grouping. The selected grouping persists across page refreshes via localStorage. Zero Odoo core files are modified - purely additive OWL patching.

Group By Product

Creates one column per finished product. Instantly shows how many orders are running for each product - ideal for tracking product mix and workload per item.

Group By Status

Groups orders by their production state in logical order: Confirmed → In Progress → To Close. Spot at a glance what needs action and what is flowing normally.

Group By Priority

Separates Urgent orders from Normal orders. Urgent column always appears first so operators immediately know what must be finished first.

Group By Work Center

In Overview: groups MOs by the work center of their active or next pending work order. In WO views: groups WOs by their assigned work center. See your production board by station.

Production Supervisors

Group by Work Center to immediately see how many orders are queued at each station - identify bottlenecks and re-balance work without leaving the Shop Floor screen.

Multi-Product Runs

Factories producing multiple SKUs simultaneously use Group By Product to keep each product's orders in their own lane - reducing confusion between similar-looking cards.

Shift Planning Screens

Display Shop Floor on a large monitor grouped by Status to give the entire team a real-time view of the shift's production pipeline state.

Rush Order Management

Group by Priority during high-demand periods to ensure urgent orders are always visible in their own column - preventing them from being buried in a long general queue.

Tablet Operator View

Operators working on a specific work center use Group By Work Center on their tablet - their station's column is immediately visible without scrolling through unrelated orders.

End-of-Shift Reviews

Group by Status at end of shift to instantly see what remains To Close - ensuring every order that was started is properly finished before the shift handover.

Instant Production Visibility

A supervisor walking onto the floor can see the full production state in seconds - no scrolling, no filtering, no searching. Each column tells a clear story.

Identify Workload Imbalances

Group by Work Center to instantly see which station is overloaded (12 cards) vs underloaded (2 cards) - enabling rapid rebalancing decisions before a bottleneck forms.

Reduce Operator Search Time

Operators find their work orders in their column immediately - no scrolling through cards for other products or work centers that have nothing to do with their station.

Zero Workflow Risk

Pure visual enhancement - grouping cannot accidentally change an order's status, move stock, or affect any backend data. Safe to roll out without extensive testing.