I think these daily management boards reflect (physically, perhaps on a white board) the tasks and goals for the day and the managed flow of work product as it comes into and leaves a department.

It could well be PERT charts, an excellent suggestion by R.C. Baca, but this Booz Allen designed PERT program is the type of reporting or posting of information of a fairly complex nature.

If, as stated, the purpose is to make it easy for all employees to understand how their piece of the process is related to the plant operations as a whole, I am thinking in more simplistic and less formal terms.