Making More in 2025: Production Monitoring Release Highlights

From Visibility to Control: The Datanomix Features That Drove Growth in 2025

Shops asked for more visibility, tighter scheduling, and better real-time insights, and we delivered. Our production monitoring software updates this year focused on helping manufacturers run smoother, more predictable, and more profitable operations.

Here’s a look back at the biggest product releases of 2025 and how they helped customers boost performance and Make More in every shift.

Foundations for Insight & Improvement

Tool Management Track

We kicked off the year with a new level of visibility into how tools actually perform. The Tool Management Track surfaces tool life, wear, and usage trends, enabling data-driven recommendations to reduce costs, prevent unexpected downtime, and keep production running at peak efficiency. 

Win The Window Report

Operations teams now have a simple way to define and communicate daily production goals. Win The Window turns expectations into a clear scoreboard your team can rally around. This report is perfect for morning huddles, shift transitions, or weekly reviews. It keeps everyone aligned, motivated, and focused on hitting the targets that truly matter.

Kaizen Report

Continuous improvement became data-driven instead of anecdotal. The Kaizen Report shows whether changes on the floor are actually delivering better cycle times and higher performance. It’s an easy, visual way to validate improvements and prioritize what should come next.

Turning Plans into Action & Work Moving

Kanban Boards

Our customers needed a faster way to turn what they see in their data into what they do on the floor — so in Q2, we delivered Kanban Boards.

Teams can create, assign, and track tasks directly from Gemba insights, downtime findings, or shift-level reviews. It’s a simple visual workflow that keeps improvement work from stalling out and helps operators and leaders stay aligned on what needs attention next.

Delivery Track: Live Jobs, Job History & Job Planning

Q2 also brought a major evolution in production scheduling. Delivery Track gained three powerful upgrades:

• Live Jobs — real-time visibility into what’s running now and what’s about to start
• Job History — a clear breakdown of cycle times, setups, and past performance
• Job Planning — schedule using actual machine capacity, not best guesses

Together, they give manufacturers a more predictable and accountable way to plan their week and keep it on track.

Deploy Digital Production Bundles with G-Code Cloud™ + DNC

Q2 delivered a major improvement for teams fighting setup delays and missing information. Digital Production Bundles ensure operators get everything they need the moment a job starts, including prints, tooling sheets, work instructions, and even 3D models. All delivered directly to the machine. No hunting, no uncertainty, and no wasted motion.

Paired with G-Code Cloud™, every program and document is revision-controlled, CMMC compliant, and traceable from prep to production. Shops get consistent setups, cleaner handoffs, and confidence that the right file is always at the machine.

Alignment Between Planning, Labor, & Delivery

ERP Insights 

ERP Insights connects your ERP directly to live production performance so you can see exactly how jobs are running compared to the plan. Instead of guessing why a job is drifting or where hours are being lost, you get a clean view of cycle times, setups, labor, and machine performance tied directly to your ERP expectations. It’s the fastest way to understand whether you’re protecting margins, staying on schedule, and hitting delivery commitments.

What makes ERP Insights stand out is how effortlessly it fits into your existing workflow. It works with the ERP you already have, whether in the cloud or on-premise, without custom development or IT lift. 

Aligning planning with real execution gives manufacturers the confidence to quote accurately, schedule realistically, and make decisions based on what’s actually happening on the floor, not what they hope is happening.

Integrated Labor Tracking

Datanomix customers get to see labor and machine utilization side-by-side. Whether operators clock in through Datanomix’s Heads Up Display (HUD) or labor flows from your ERP, everything lines up with machine data in a single, easy-to-read view.

This clarity unlocks smarter staffing decisions, cleaner costing, and clearer accountability across shifts. And it’s an essential feature for shops trying to understand where hours are spent — and where they’re lost.

Spotlight Dashboard — Instant Clarity for Daily Production

Spotlight became the new “must-have” view for daily operations. It gives teams a single, intuitive screen showing what’s running well, what’s drifting, and where attention is needed right now. No digging, no switching dashboards — just the pulse of your entire operation in one place.

For many customers, the Spotlight Dashboard is often the moment they realize Datanomix isn’t just collecting data… It’s driving the daily conversation on the shop floor.

Sharper Daily Insights & Smarter Long-Term Control

Spotlight View added to the Coffee & Espresso Reports— Clear, Fast, and Built for Daily Action

Q4 elevated two of our most relied-on performance reports by introducing the new Spotlight View to both the Coffee and Espresso Reports. These reports were already a go-to for understanding cycle times, downtime, and shift-level performance. Spotlight takes that value even further by surfacing the most important insights in a clean, visual snapshot that leaders can interpret at a glance.

This means teams gain the speed and clarity they need to run sharper morning huddles, spot emerging issues sooner, and keep every shift aligned on what matters most. It’s the same trusted performance intelligence, now even easier to act on.

Maintenance Dashboard — Stay Ahead of Issues Before They Cost You Time & Money

To help manufacturers run more predictable operations, we introduced a new Maintenance Dashboard that gives teams a clear picture of upcoming service needs across their machines. Instead of wondering when work is due or relying on tribal knowledge to prevent breakdowns, leaders can instantly see what’s coming up, what needs attention, and where there may be risk.

For shops focused on maximizing uptime, this view delivers the foresight needed to plan maintenance with confidence, protect machine performance, and prevent the unexpected interruptions that can derail schedules and cut into profitability.

Favorites & Search — Faster Access to the Insights You Use Most

Q4 also introduced new Favorites and enhanced Search capabilities, making it easier than ever for teams to jump straight to the views and reports they rely on every day. Whether it’s Delivery Track, Spotlight, Coffee & Espresso, or ERP Insights, users can now mark key pages as Favorites and access them instantly without navigating through menus.

Improved Search helps teams find precisely what they’re looking for in seconds. For busy shops juggling multiple priorities, this update removes friction, speeds up daily workflows, and ensures the right insights are always just a click away.

API Data Integrations

The Datanomix API provides customers with secure, real-time access to their manufacturing performance data via a simple customer API key. With this key, customers can seamlessly pull production machine insights directly into their systems, unlocking automation, dashboards, and analytics without ever logging in to the Datanomix platform.  Our API is designed to be fast, reliable, and integration-friendly, allowing customers to treat Datanomix as their manufacturing intelligence engine. Whether they’re feeding ERP/MES systems, building custom applications, or embedding live machine KPIs into internal dashboards, the Datanomix API makes operational data instantly actionable.

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Turning Production Control into a Competitive Advantage

As 2025 wraps up, one thing is clear: manufacturers are moving faster, operating smarter, and gaining more control over their production than ever before (especially when they are Datanomix customers). From sharpening daily decision-making to improving long-term predictability, every release this year was designed to help shops stay ahead of schedule, protect profitability, and get more out of every shift. In today’s manufacturing landscape, that level of control isn’t just helpful; it’s the competitive advantage that separates manufacturing leaders from the rest.

See for Yourself

If you’re curious how these new features could help your shop run with greater clarity and confidence, our team would be happy to walk you through them and discuss what they might mean for your operations.