Anyone using a Fitbit or step-counter (pedometer) on their mobile phone knows its impact. It drives to more exercise, more steps. 

This article from Stanford University describes research that confirms the psychological impact:

The same principle applies for factory operations, where performance data are caught in OEE-metrics, as a part of the lean philosophy. An interesting article on how monitoring the shop floor is as taking the pulse of the factory was published by Advanced Manufacturing.

Although the experts in the article agree that monitoring is an essential tool on the way to improvement of OEE-KPI’s on the way to lean, they flag that an astonishing low rate as 4% of the machines out there are monitored.

The set-up procedure and cost are the main factors that inhibit a much wider deployment of monitoring tools. That’s before M-Box came in.