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Back in June, we walked through Plex's three Production Monitoring views: the Control Panel for the operator at the machine, Production Statuses for the supervisor across the line, and the Visual Plant Floor for the manager who needs the whole building at a glance. Every one of those views has a quiet dependency nobody talks about. They are only as honest as the downtime data underneath them. And the downtime data is only as honest as the reason codes your operators enter. Here is the uncomfortable version: if your operators are stamping "Other," "Misc," or "Downtime" on two-thirds of your stoppages, or entering everything from memory at the end of the shift, then your OEE number is a work of fiction. A nicely formatted, color-coded work of fiction - but fiction all the same. Listen to this post: The gap hiding in your dashboards Production Monitoring is excellent at one thing: telling you when a workcenter stopped and for how long. The...