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Machine monitoring for job shops and subcontract machinists
Job shops juggle dozens of part numbers, daily changeovers, and customers who all want their job first. ThingConnect shows what every machine is doing now, how far each job has progressed, and what your real capacity is — so quoting stops being astrology.
What job shops deal with
- Quotes assume capacity that nobody has measured — win the order, then discover the hours aren't there.
- "Where is my job?" gets answered by walking the floor and asking, not by looking at a screen.
- Changeovers eat a third of the day on some machines, and nobody knows which machines or why.
- High part variety means cycle-time references are stale or missing, so performance losses hide in plain sight.
How ThingConnect does it
Job progress without walking the floor
Parts done against target per job, live, with completion projected at the current pace — the customer call gets answered from the dashboard.
Changeover time, measured
Changeovers classified separately from breakdowns, per machine — a month of data usually shows two or three machines where setup discipline pays immediately.
Quote on measured capacity
Utilization per machine and true cycle history per part family turn quoting from gut feel into arithmetic.
Common questions
We run many small jobs with frequent changeovers — is monitoring still meaningful?
Especially then. Changeover-heavy floors are where the difference between planned and actual setup time is largest — and where measuring it produces the fastest wins. Job context is set from the operator station in seconds.
Do operators need to enter a lot of data?
No — machine state and counts come from the controller automatically. Operators set the job context and classify stops in two taps; everything else is hands-off.
We have 8 machines — is this overkill for a shop our size?
Per-machine pricing means a small shop pays a small amount, and shops under 10 machines often see the clearest results — one recovered hour per machine per day is a much bigger fraction of a small shop's capacity.
See it on machines like yours
A 30-minute demo, then a pilot on your own floor if it fits.