The quick answer
Open Advanced Manufacturing > Manufacturing Reports > Production Loss Graph - Reason or Production Loss Graph - Category, set Date Recorded to All, and read the tallest bar. In the account reviewed a bar added up the Qty of its entries. To see what is inside a bar, open Production Loss Report - Detail with the same period and choose the reason or category.
The screenshots show sample data. Company, person, work order, assembly and work center names are fictional. Use your own records and values when following the steps.
Before you start
You need Advanced Manufacturing, a role that can run its Manufacturing Reports, and production loss that has already been recorded with a quantity and a date. Link each loss reason to a loss category, because the Category graph groups reasons by category. The default period, the order of the bars, the axis scale and the Style behavior described here are what the account reviewed showed, and they can differ by release, role and customization. This example uses fifteen loss entries recorded between 03/04/2026 and 09/17/2026 at three work centers.
01. Open the Reason graph
Go to Advanced Manufacturing > Manufacturing Reports > Production Loss Graph - Reason. The report opens with Date Recorded set to this month to date. Nothing was recorded this month, so the chart is empty and the count at the top reads Total: 0. That only means nothing was recorded in the period.
02. Show every recorded loss
Click Date Recorded and choose All in the quick-filter popup. The From and To dates clear and six bars appear, tallest first, and the count reads Total: 6. Gauge Failure reaches almost the top of the 0 to 500 axis, Setup Loss is about 60, and the other four are each under 25.
The bars carry no numbers. In the account reviewed, each bar added up the Qty of the entries for its reason, so a bar shows units lost, not how many entries there were. The count at the top matched the number of bars, not units and not entries. Read heights against the axis and take exact numbers from the Detail report.
03. Compare the categories
Go to Advanced Manufacturing > Manufacturing Reports > Production Loss Graph - Category. It opens on this month to date and is empty again. Click Date Recorded and choose All. Three bars appear, tallest first, and the count reads Total: 3. Calibration Loss is by far the tallest. Loss Category comes from the loss reason, so this graph groups the reasons from the last step by the category each one belongs to.
04. Trace the tallest bar
Before putting calibration at the top of a review, look inside the bar. Go to Advanced Manufacturing > Manufacturing Reports > Production Loss Report - Detail and choose All in Date Recorded. Open Loss Reason and choose Gauge Failure. The report narrows as soon as you choose, to four entries: 480, 2, 1 and 1 units. The Total row reads 484.0 and the count at the top reads Total: 4.
One entry of 480 units on WO3048 makes up nearly the whole bar. That is a single event to check, not a steady run of calibration problems. Use the same Date Recorded and the same other filters as the graph, or the totals will not match.
Check the result
- Date Recorded shows All and Loss Reason shows Gauge Failure, and the count reads Total: 4.
- The Qty values are 480, 2, 1 and 1, and the Total row is their sum, 484.0.
- The 480-unit entry is almost all of the Gauge Failure bar on the Reason graph.
Common questions
Why is the Production Loss Graph - Reason empty?
The graphs open on Date Recorded set to this month to date. If nothing was recorded this month the chart is empty and the count reads Total: 0. Choose All, or a wider period, before concluding nothing was lost. Also check the other filters and that losses were saved.
What does a bar on the graph show?
In the account reviewed, a bar added up the Qty of the entries for its reason or category. A single test entry of 2 units produced a bar of 2, and a reason with several entries produced a bar as tall as their combined units. Do not read a bar as a count of entries. Confirm the same behavior in your own account with a known entry.
What does the Total at the top of the graph count?
In the account reviewed it matched the number of bars drawn, so six reasons read Total: 6. It was not the units lost and not the number of entries. Check what yours counts before quoting it.
Why does the graph show no numbers?
The bars have no value labels, and the vertical axis picks its own scale from the data. Read an approximate height against the axis, and use the Production Loss Report - Detail for exact quantities. Its Total row adds Qty.
Why does one reason look so much bigger than the rest?
Because the bars add up units, a single large entry can dominate. Open the Production Loss Report - Detail with the same Date Recorded, choose that reason in Loss Reason, and read the entries. If one entry carries almost all of the units, check it before treating the reason as a recurring problem.
Does changing Style to Report give me a table?
Not in the account reviewed. Style Report on a graph still showed the chart. Use the Production Loss Report - Detail when you need rows and a Total.
Where do the entries on the graph come from?
From saved production loss entries, such as those recorded on the Material Loss tab of Production Data Entry. Open the graph again after new entries are saved.