No extra work, and no threat to any job
The sensor does the recording. There is no form, no tally sheet and nothing to hand in, and the data measures the machine rather than the person stood at it.
By job role
Monitoring that watches the machine, not the person on it.
Most monitoring gets sold to the floor badly, and the floor is right to be wary. This reads the machine, adds nothing to the job, and puts evidence behind the problems people have been raising for years.
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- Rolling monthly
- Thirty days to change your mind
- UK hosted
Machine terminalLive
Stops logged today
Whole site
14
Prev day11↑ 27.3% Day average13↑ 7.7%
Time to log a stop
Average
8
Paper log180s↓ 95.6% Target10s↓ 20.0%
Machines watched
Continuously
24
Fitted this month6↑ 300.0% Planned30↓ 20.0%
The problem
Nobody on the floor asked to be measured.
Monitoring arrives on a shop floor with a reputation, and usually it has earned it. The version that works is the one that takes work away rather than adding it, and that gives the floor something back.
01
It gets introduced as surveillance
If the first thing anyone hears is that management will see everything, the answer is already no. What a clamp on a cable actually measures is current, not people.
02
Reporting a problem takes longer than living with it
A fault you have to write up, hand in and chase is a fault most people work around instead. That is how a machine limps for six months.
03
Every new system means more admin
Clipboards, tally sheets and a spreadsheet at the end of the shift. Anything that adds a second round of recording gets filled in at five to five, badly.
What you get
All the upside, none of the extra work.
Most of the time nobody notices it is there
A sensor clips on and stays out of the way. The only moment an operator touches the system is confirming why a machine has already stopped, and that is one tap.
Problems get seen without being reported
A machine that keeps stopping for the same reason builds its own case. Things people have been raising verbally for months turn into a ranked list with hours attached.
Maintenance turns up knowing the fault
The reading goes with the alert, so the person who arrives already knows what the machine was doing when it went. Less time stood about explaining it.
Safer machines, because faults show early
Vibration and heat climbing on a machine is a warning that usually only shows up as noise or a smell. Watching it continuously means the work gets planned rather than discovered.
Where the numbers come from
Four sources, one figure.
None of this is typed in by anybody. The number you look at is assembled from the parts of the business that already produce it.
The ERP
Orders, stock, purchasing and finance. What was sold, what it was quoted at and what was bought to make it.
Mobile job tracking
Jobs booked on and off from a phone or a tablet on the floor. Labour lands against the job as it happens, not on a timesheet at the end of the week.
Connected sensors
Power, vibration, heat, pressure and run hours, straight off the machine. Nothing to key in and nothing to remember.
One tap, and the record writes itself
The machine reports what happened. The operator confirms why. Everything else, the job, the time, the shift and the cost, attaches itself.
Time to log a stop 8 Against roughly three minutes on paper
In practice
Measured, anonymised results will be published here as our first deployments report them. Nothing invented goes on this page in the meantime.
The rest of the business
The same feed, read a different way.
Questions
The ones operators ask.
Is this here to watch me?
It reads the machine. A current clamp measures what a motor draws, and it cannot tell who is stood in front of it. What it is for is finding out why machines stop, not who was there when they did.
Does it mean more paperwork?
It means less. The recording that used to happen on paper at the end of a shift happens automatically, and the only input is a reason when something has already stopped.
What if I pick the wrong reason?
Reasons can be corrected, and the list is written by your own people rather than by us. If a reason is missing, it gets added.
Will it be used against people?
That is a management decision rather than a software one, but the data is about machines and jobs. Our position is that a monitoring rollout that starts by blaming people fails, and most of them do.
Do I have to learn a new system?
No. The terminal asks one question when a machine stops. If you never touch anything else, the monitoring still works.
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