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Software UpdatesOctober 31, 20241 min read

Production Monitoring: Real-Time Shop Floor Visibility

Comprehensive production dashboards with OEE tracking and performance metrics

Dave Medinis

Manufacturing Systems Consultant

Last updated April 10, 2026

Understanding shop floor activity requires visibility into dozens of metrics across machines, work centers, and operators. MonitorZ Production Monitoring consolidates complexity into intuitive visual dashboards.

Shop Floor Overview

The main dashboard provides instant situational awareness with facility maps showing real-time machine status, performance metrics, operator assignments, and work order progress.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

MonitorZ automatically tracks and visualizes all OEE components: availability (uptime vs downtime), performance (actual vs ideal cycle time), quality (good parts vs defects), and composite OEE score.

Production Efficiency Metrics

Comprehensive metrics reveal cycle time analysis, throughput rates, setup times, scrap rates, first pass yield, and labor efficiency.

Real-Time Displays

Large screen displays for shop floor showing today's production vs target, current run status, next up queued orders, quality status, and safety metrics.

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Production MonitoringOEEManufacturing DashboardsReal-time AnalyticsShop Floor
Dave Medinis

Manufacturing Systems Consultant

Dave Medinis has spent 20 years engineering and implementing management and production control systems from small job shops to Fortune 500 and earned a Ford Preferred Supplier Award.

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