About
Fifty notes on industrial and warehouse activity monitoring, written from the operator's side.
Who this is for
Operations and warehouse managers. Industrial engineers. Health and safety functions. Continuous improvement teams. Anyone who has been handed a monitoring budget and a set of vendor demonstrations.
How the notes are written
The measurement before the product. What each measure means and what it misses, before any question of what to buy.
Methods you can run. Where a note says something is measurable, it says how, using data most facilities already hold.
Limits stated plainly. One note is entirely about questions the data cannot answer, with what to use for each instead.
The uncomfortable findings included. Output per person attributes system performance to individuals. Most dashboards are ignored within a month. Monitoring read as adversarial degrades the data it collects. Detection is close to the weakest control in the safety hierarchy.
On monitoring people
Measurement attributed to a named individual is workplace surveillance, with obligations attached. These notes say so.
A full section covers it: what the obligations commonly are, why consultation improves the design as well as being required in many places, why aggregation answers almost every operational question, and what should not be measured at all.
One note covers rate pressure and injury directly, because it is the central risk in this subject. The test it states is simple: if meeting the target requires abandoning the safe method, the target is wrong.
What this does not cover
Covert monitoring, in any form.
Techniques for setting rates that outrun the safe method.
Working around notice, consultation or retention obligations.
Specific product configuration, which changes faster than anything written here would stay accurate.
Specific legal requirements, which differ by jurisdiction.
Editorial position
No vendor material, no sponsored content, no affiliate arrangements, no product rankings. Where tooling is discussed it is in terms of what to test on your own data and what to ask.
About this domain
This address previously belonged to a technology startup developing a portable cooling product with a university and a government agency. None of that material is here and none of it should be: the site carried biographies of named individuals, current contact details, work attributed to institutions unconnected with this site, and forms collecting personal data from members of the public.
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