---
title: "VIDEO: Data-Driven Planning With Our After Action Report"
date: 2022-03-22 15:41:00
description: "Analyzing data over time provides deep insights for better job costing and business planning—increase your productivity and profits."
keywords: "After Action Report"
categories: [Product Videos]
tags: [After Action, business planning, Demo, machine utilization, Production Meetings, Production Monitoring, Reporting, Video]
---

## Analyzing data over time provides deep insights for better job costing and business planning—increasing your productivity and profits.

[Running a post-mortem](https://datanomix.io/2022/05/11/video-arr/) on completed jobs is the best way to understand how well your factory is performing. However, calculating real performance across an entire job run is virtually impossible with your ERP system. [Most monitoring systems only give you the basics](https://datanomix.io/2022/04/28/feel-let-down-by-your-monitoring-system-its-time-for-an-upgrade/), like spindle uptime across the number of days the job ran.

Datanomix helps you understand the raw capacity and utilization of your factory or job-specific details such as when an order will really be completed based on actual performance. Real-time data is great for live operations, but long-term improvements require understanding trends over time. Datanomix collects, stores, and analyzes all of the data so you understand equipment utilization, in-job performance, and shift statistics to see which teams are on target.

Check out the video below and learn how the **[After Action Report](https://datanomix.io/2021/05/18/what-we-built-after-action-report/)** offers insights into performance at a per-job and per-machine level over any given time range, helping with decision-making around staffing, job costing, and capital expenditures. 

**Video:** YouTube video embedded

_“Datanomix has a  great feature called the After Action Report. We can go back, look at a very easy-to-read calendar. We can look at every day. How did we perform? How well did we play that game?”_ 

— [Julian Torres](https://datanomix.io/2025/12/31/video-how-american-turned-products-improved-cycle-stability-and-reduced-downtime-with-production-monitoring/), VP of Engineering, American Turned Products

**Video:** Vimeo video embedded

[WATCH THE FULL STORY](https://datanomix.io/2025/12/31/video-how-american-turned-products-improved-cycle-stability-and-reduced-downtime-with-production-monitoring/)