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What is MachineMetrics?

Overview​

MachineMetrics is a real-time, data-driven Manufacturing Execution Platform designed specifically for discrete manufacturers. Our Intelligent MES connects directly to your shop floor—collecting, contextualizing, and acting on data from machines, operators, and business systems like ERP—to enable faster decision-making, increased machine utilization, and improved operational performance across your entire organization.

Modern manufacturers are under pressure to do more with less. With fragmented systems, poor visibility into operations, and inefficient manual processes, productivity is often left on the table. MachineMetrics closes this gap with a platform purpose-built to turn real-time data into real-time action.

MachineMetrics MES Platform

Platform Value & Capabilities​

CONNECTIVITY: Universal Machine & Sensor Integration​

  • Connect to any machine, regardless of brand, model, or age
  • Use MachineMetrics Edge hardware to collect high-frequency data without invasive integrations
  • Communicate across all major industrial protocols—no PLC programming required
  • Capture additional environmental context with sensor integrations (e.g., IO-Link, condition monitoring)

PURPOSE-BUILT MES MODULES​

MachineMetrics delivers four core MES capabilities:

  • Work Order Management: Track real-time job progress with automatic or operator-driven updates
  • Production Scheduling: Generate dynamic schedules that react to live conditions
  • Downtime Tracking: Automatically identify, categorize, and analyze the root causes of unplanned stops
  • OEE Analytics: Visualize productivity metrics and identify opportunities for improvement

INTELLIGENT CUSTOMIZATION​

  • Use no-code tools to build dashboards, widgets, workflows, and reports
  • Apply AI for automated shift reports, capacity insights, and operator performance coaching
  • Build custom applications with MachineMetrics Labs or leverage APIs for enterprise integration

EXTENSIBILITY: Integrate with Any System​

  • ERP: Sync work orders, routings, part details, and labor tickets
  • CMMS: Automate maintenance actions from real-time machine conditions
  • BI Tools: Fuel shop floor and enterprise reporting with APIs and exports
  • Work Instructions: Deliver job-specific documents to operators in context

MachineMetrics Intelligent MES Core 4

The Core Four MES Features​

At the heart of MachineMetrics lies a modern Manufacturing Execution System (MES) built from the ground up on real-time machine data. Unlike legacy MES systems that rely on manual inputs and retrospective analysis, MachineMetrics captures real-time data directly from your machines, operators, and ERP—transforming it into actionable insights across every layer of your operations.

Why Start with the Core Four?​

These features represent the foundational capabilities that all manufacturers need, regardless of industry, size, or digital maturity:

  • Work Order Management connects your ERP to the shop floor, ensuring every operator and machine knows what to produce, how, and when
  • Production Scheduling aligns planned production with real-time machine capacity, allowing manufacturers to adapt to change and meet delivery deadlines
  • Downtime Tracking uncovers the hidden reasons for lost production, enabling teams to fix issues before they become systemic
  • OEE Analytics gives manufacturers a single, objective view of performance, enabling continuous improvement and investment justification

By starting with these solutions, customers gain clarity, consistency, and measurable outcomes in a matter of weeks—not months.

Work Order Management​

Digitize job execution at the machine level. Whether data is pulled from an ERP or entered manually by operators, MachineMetrics tracks every step of the job lifecycle with full traceability.

Benefits:

  • Ensure alignment between planning and execution
  • Capture parts made, scrap, and setup time automatically
  • Increase accountability and reduce paperwork

Work Order Tracking

Production Scheduling​

MachineMetrics Production Schedule Intelligence builds schedules that are rooted in live data—not tribal knowledge. Our system dynamically adjusts as conditions change on the floor.

Benefits:

  • Improve on-time delivery and resource utilization
  • Visualize scheduling conflicts and capacity bottlenecks
  • Eliminate over-reliance on static spreadsheets or whiteboards

Production Schedule Intelligence

Downtime Tracking​

Downtime is detected automatically with no operator input. Categories can be assigned manually or automatically using machine signals or logic.

Benefits:

  • Discover the true cost and root cause of unplanned stops
  • Enable preventive maintenance and process improvement
  • Prioritize high-impact issues with downtime Pareto charts

Downtime Tracking

OEE Analytics​

MachineMetrics calculates OEE in real time for each machine, shift, and operation—combining availability, performance, and quality into a single actionable metric.

Benefits:

  • Standardize performance across the factory
  • Identify top and bottom performing machines or teams
  • Track the impact of process improvements or new equipment

OEE and Production Analytics

Real-Time Data is the Foundation​

What sets MachineMetrics apart is that real-time data is not an integration—it's the foundation. Every feature is built to ingest, process, and act on real-time machine and shop floor data. This allows the Core Four to:

  • Eliminate delays and inaccuracies in manual data collection
  • Automatically capture context like alarms, cycle times, and tool changes
  • Serve as a live source of truth across departments

Beyond the Core Four​

Once the foundational value of the Core Four MES Features is unlocked, many MachineMetrics customers find themselves ready for the next phase: solving their unique, high-impact problems with tailored solutions.

At this point, our customers don't just need visibility; they need precision tools that can drive change, standardize improvement, and inform decision-making in complex or highly variable environments. That's where MachineMetrics Intelligent Customization comes in.

What is Intelligent Customization?​

Intelligent Customization refers to MachineMetrics' ability to help customers shape their platform experience into something uniquely theirs—solutions that are purpose-built using real-time data, AI, and years of collective manufacturing expertise.

This may include:

  • Custom widgets for dashboards
  • AI-powered shift summaries
  • Purpose-built reports for cross-functional teams
  • Fully tailored applications that align with plant-specific workflows

Everything is grounded in our real-time machine data architecture, enabling these solutions to be not only insightful but also timely and scalable.

How Customization Works​

Customization starts with a conversation. Customers collaborate directly with a MachineMetrics Solution Delivery Manager (SDM) to define the problem and brainstorm potential solutions. Our team brings:

  • Deep expertise in manufacturing operations
  • Engineering acumen in software, controls, and integration
  • No-code and low-code tools, including our proprietary AI-based design assistants

Together, the team can rapidly prototype widgets or tools that give teams a new lens on performance, quality, or maintenance data.

What You Can Build​

Here are just a few examples of what customers build Beyond the Core Four:

Capacity Planning and Analysis Understand production potential versus actual output across shifts and departments. Analyze machine availability and crew coverage to better align with scheduling.

Schedule Attainment Compare planned versus actual production in real time. Identify when and where schedule adherence breaks down to take corrective action.

Daily Production Dashboard Deliver a live, visual summary of key production metrics by shift, machine, or team. Focus attention on performance and progress against goals.

Downtime Classification Enforcement Drive greater accuracy in downtime reporting by prompting operators or triggering escalations when uncategorized downtime exceeds thresholds.

Continuous Improvement Tracker Monitor and sustain progress on improvement initiatives with a structured, visual tracking tool aligned to the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology.

These solutions are all built on top of real-time machine data, with full flexibility in display logic, data grouping, and user access.

Advanced Features​

In addition to custom solutions, MachineMetrics offers a growing portfolio of advanced features that expand functionality beyond the Core Four:

Tool Anomaly Detection Leverage machine signal monitoring and AI to identify unusual patterns in spindle behavior or tool performance—alerting you to potential failures before they occur.

AI-Generated Shift Reports (Coming Soon) Automatically summarize each shift's performance highlights, issues, and key trends without requiring manual input—empowering supervisors with timely insights.

Advanced Production Analytics Dive deeper into performance metrics, quality trends, and process bottlenecks with role-specific dashboards and analysis tools.

Key Use Cases​

Dynamic Production Scheduling​

React to shop floor changes in real time to keep schedules on track and improve on-time delivery performance.

Job Tracking​

Digitally track production activity at the machine or operator level. Identify slowdowns, missed setups, or non-standard process durations.

Downtime & Bottleneck Analysis​

Automatically categorize downtime and analyze patterns to find and eliminate root causes that reduce throughput.

AI-Driven Operator Engagement​

Enhance accountability and motivation with real-time performance feedback, shift summaries, and gamified coaching features.

Enterprise Insights​

Standardize performance measurement across plants. Use widgets like Multi-Plant Comparison and Multi-Region Utilization to drill from global to machine-level metrics.

Why MachineMetrics?​

  • Fast Time to Value: Deploy in days. See ROI in weeks. Out-of-the-box reports, dashboards, and workflows to fuel smart manufacturing
  • Scalable & Modular: Scale across sites and use cases at your pace. Configure reports, alerts, and dashboards without IT support
  • Actionable Intelligence: Go beyond visibility with automation, alerts, and AI insights that drive real improvements
  • Universal Machine Connectivity: Connect to any make and model of equipment to monitor machine health and production performance
  • Seamless ERP Integration: Clickable ERP connectors and open APIs to power every system with real-time production data

Why It Matters​

Every manufacturer is different. Whether you build heavy equipment, aerospace parts, or contract-manufacture across dozens of jobs per day, the final 10–20% of performance optimization will come from context-specific insights.

Intelligent Customization allows MachineMetrics to:

  • Accelerate improvement cycles
  • Reduce cognitive overhead for frontline teams
  • Deliver value where ERP and legacy MES systems fall short

AI makes us faster. Experience makes us smarter. Together, they help our customers make better decisions, faster.

Learn More​

To learn more about how MachineMetrics can transform your operations, contact your Solution Delivery Manager (SDM) or visit www.machinemetrics.com.