Guides
Guides for factory owners and plant heads
These guides explain how to measure what your machines are really doing. Each one takes a single question, answers it in plain words, and shows where machine monitoring fits. No software background is needed. Start with whichever problem is on your mind this week.
Each guide ends with links to the product page that goes deeper, and a way to talk to us if you want to try it on one machine.
What will I find here?
What is OEE and how do you calculate it?
The formula, a worked shift with every step shown, the six big losses, and what a good score means.
How to track machine downtime without changing your machines
Why registers undercount, how sensors outside the machine capture stoppages, and what you need to get started.
What is stack light monitoring?
What the red, amber and green lamps tell you, how a device reads them, and where they fall short.
How to retrofit old CNC machines for monitoring
Why old controllers stay silent, three ways to get machine state, and a checklist before a pilot.
Looking for the product instead?
OEE software
OEE worked through on an Indian shift, with a calculator.
Machine downtime tracking
Automatic stoppage records, with reasons if you switch them on.
CNC machine monitoring
Sensors outside the machine, on old and new CNC machines.
Not sure which guide you need?
Tell us about your floor in a few lines. We will say honestly whether monitoring fits and what a pilot on one machine would look like.