As a manufacturer, it's highly likely you'll already be monitoring Work order times, Ops times and setup times, of course, this is all useful, however, it does not give you the big picture. For instance, it doesn't identify and inform you of what improvements can be made to improve shop floor productivity. Machine monitoring differs because it will give you real-time, actionable shop floor data such as: Top 5 downtimes, per factory, cell or machine Pareto plots Average setup time per part Downtimes and machine active times per work order This information can be used to take decisions based on fact and not opinion. I