What Activity Monitoring Actually Is
Three things share the name: measuring a process, tracking equipment, and watching people. They need different justifications.
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Measuring the Right Thing
Most facilities measure output per person because it is easy. The measures that explain performance are about waiting, travel and variation.
Analysis
Process Data and Personal Data
The same sensor produces both, depending on whether output is attributed to a person. The line, and why keeping to it is practical rather than principled.
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The Business Case, Honestly
Vendor payback figures rarely survive scrutiny. The savings that are real, how to size them from your own data, and what not to claim.
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The Data You Already Have
Most facilities can answer their first questions from existing records. What to join, in what order, before installing any sensor.
Procedure
What Measurement Cannot Fix
Visibility is a precondition for improvement and is not improvement. The constraints that data identifies and cannot remove.
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