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Manufacturing operational intelligence is the real-time capture of machine state, operator context, and production results, routed to the people who make decisions from it. MACH is the operational intelligence layer between your machines and your management.
Last updated: June 12, 2026
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A monitoring system that detects a breakdown on the floor and auto-creates a maintenance work order. Pre-filled with the machine, timestamp, and the operator's description. That eliminates the "walk to a computer and file a ticket" gap that causes most breakdowns to go unreported.
When the maintenance system knows a PM is due, that PM appears on the production schedule as an immovable block. When a breakdown happens mid-job, the schedule adjusts automatically. The planner sees the impact immediately.
MACH Monitor and MACH Schedule each work independently. Start with whichever solves your most pressing problem (scheduling or floor visibility) and connect them when you're ready for the closed loop. A breakdown on the floor creates a work order, adjusts the schedule, and eventually shows up as a cost variance on the delayed job. No manual re-entry. No spreadsheet gymnastics.
| Capability | Monitor | Schedule | Reporting & Analytics |
Maintain Q3 2026 |
Complete |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor visibility | |||||
| Real-time machine monitoring (PLC) | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Two-tap downtime classification | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| OEE analytics & KPI reporting | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Operator kiosk (context capture) | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Floor display dashboard | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Automated production counting | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Production scheduling | |||||
| Visual production scheduler | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Intelligent auto-scheduling | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Machine constraints & changeover | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Duration prediction (learns from completed jobs) | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Process routes (computed operations) | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Order management (split, combine, ERP sync) | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Operator kiosk (execution at the machine) | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Standalone scheduling (no floor data) | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Closed-loop integration | |||||
| Monitoring ↔ Scheduling loop | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Reporting & analytics | |||||
| Custom KPI builder (your formulas) | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Dashboards & data visualization | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Analytics warehouse (auto from floor & schedule) | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Factory catalog (single source of truth) | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Materials, routes & order schemas | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Data quality & governance (audit trail) | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Maintenance (Q3 2026) | |||||
| Asset management & work orders | – | – | – | ✓ | On release |
| Preventive maintenance automation | – | – | – | ✓ | On release |
| Reliability & maintenance cost analytics | – | – | – | ✓ | On release |
| Integration: Monitor → Maintenance ↔ Schedule | – | – | – | ✓ | On release |
| Platform (every product) | |||||
| Multi-plant console (one login, role-based access) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security, SSO & access control | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Admin & self-service configuration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open APIs & data export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Buy a product, get everything in it. No locked features. Reporting & Analytics is included with MACH Complete at no additional charge.
One login. Every plant. Nothing gets in that shouldn't.
Access and security: data flows out from your machines. Nothing flows in. Your team logs in once and moves between plants without re-authenticating. You control who sees what. Everything is encrypted.
- Outbound-only data flow. No inbound connections to your PLCs or OT network.
- One login across every plant. Role-based access controls who sees what (admins, planners, viewers) across every facility.
- Kiosk tablets and floor displays deploy with auto-generated device keys, so no user logins are required at the cell.
- Every administrative change tracked in a dedicated audit log.
The schedule and the floor, connected.
Manufacturing operational intelligence is the real-time capture and routing of shop floor data: machine state, operator context, and production results, routed to the people who make decisions from it. MACH is the operational intelligence platform that connects directly to the PLC layer and works without a MES.
How long does this job actually take on Line 3 with this material? The answer is in your production history. If that history doesn't exist, the number in the schedule is someone's best guess.
MACH captures the history. The schedule gets built from what similar jobs actually took. Your machines, your materials, your floor.
- Live machine state feeds the schedule in real time
- Operator context captures the why behind every stop
- Duration predictions improve with every completed job
Built for the people who need it most.
When margins tighten, you need to understand where capacity is actually being lost.
Proving it requires a conversation nobody can give you a clean answer to. Which shift lost what, and why? Nobody has a clean answer. MACH gives you the answer before the conversation.
See the VP of Operations page →When leadership asks why performance was down, you need objective data. Not an explanation.
Shift visibility, defensibility, the 3pm discovery that should have been a 9am alert. You walk into the meeting with evidence. Not with a narrative.
See the Plant Manager page →The board is asking where the margin recovery comes from. Your reports can't tell you.
Most operations can't distinguish a capacity problem from an execution problem. Those two things have very different answers. MACH shows you which one you're dealing with. And proves it.
See the Executive page →The hardest part of CI isn't finding the problems. It's the ROI conversation.
Really it's two conversations. The one before where you need a credible number to get the budget. And the one after where someone asks you to prove it actually worked. Same problem both times: the baseline wasn't solid enough. When the baseline comes from actual production data off the machine, both conversations get easier. The baseline just exists. So does the proof.
See how a $5B manufacturer cut changeover by 45% →No MES? No problem.
MACH isn't an MES, and it isn't an ERP. It's the operational intelligence layer that connects directly to your machines to capture what those systems can't see. If you already run an MES or ERP, MACH works alongside it and fills the gap between the floor and your reports. If you don't, MACH works standalone and becomes your system of record from day one. Either way: nothing to rip out, and nothing required before you start.
You know what your products cost in theory. Do you know what they cost to make?
Standard costing tells you what products should cost. It doesn't see changeover frequency between jobs, scheduling disruption from late material, overtime absorbed when a run takes longer than estimated, or the capacity consumed by your least profitable SKU. Those costs are real. They just don't show up in the model.
MACH captures the actual production data that makes true cost-to-serve visible. Which products are profitable. Which ones your best work is subsidizing. Which customers generate margin and which ones erode it. When you can see the real number, pricing decisions, product mix decisions, and customer strategy all change.
Cost-to-serve analytics is where MACH is headed next. The production data captured by Monitoring and Scheduling today is the foundation. When cost-to-serve reporting ships, the data is already there. No new implementation required.
We wrote about what this looks like on a real floor: What the job actually cost.
$500K–$2M: Kinetech customer benchmark. See the cost-to-serve analysis.
Questions about MACH.
Is MACH an MES or ERP? Does it require one?
No. MACH is not an MES or an ERP. It's the operational intelligence layer that connects directly to the PLC layer to capture what those systems can't see. If you already run an MES or ERP, MACH works alongside it and fills the gap between the floor and your reports. If you don't, MACH works standalone as your system of record from day one. No prerequisite system, and nothing to replace.
How does MACH connect to machines on the shop floor?
MACH connects to machines via an edge gateway installed on-site that reads from the PLC layer. The connection is outbound-only, so it works within standard IT security policies without firewall exceptions. No inbound ports required.
What does MACH cost?
MACH is priced flat per work center per month on annual billing. MACH Schedule is $150/wc/mo, MACH Monitor is $270/wc/mo, MACH Complete is $357/wc/mo (15% bundle discount versus Schedule and Monitor separately). Same flat rate whether you run 5 or 100 work centers. Above 100, contact sales for custom pricing. See full pricing.
What production data does MACH capture?
MACH captures machine state (running, idle, down), operator-logged downtime root causes, production counts per job, changeover time per order, and schedule attainment by line and shift. All data is available in real time before the shift ends.
How long does MACH implementation take?
MACH deployments begin with a 90-day proof of concept with defined scope and measurement window. Most production monitoring deployments are live within the first 30 days of the POC.
The meter is running. Book a diagnostic.
We run a Shop Floor Diagnostic against your floor. One-hour call to understand your situation, then a written assessment of where your losses actually are.
Either outcome is professionally defensible. If the numbers justify action, you have the case. If they don't, you have the data.