Not every manufacturer needs to begin its digital manufacturing journey with a massive MES implementation.
Sometimes the first question is much simpler:
What are our machines actually doing all day?
TeePTrak is a real-time production monitoring and OEE platform designed to answer that question. It connects machines, captures stops and production data, lets operators identify loss causes, and turns that information into live performance dashboards.
And unlike vendors that stop at a sales presentation, TeePTrak offers manufacturers a 60-day guided pilot on an actual production line before they commit to a broader deployment.
Can You Try TeePTrak Before You Buy?
Yes—but this is a guided pilot rather than a self-service software trial.
TeePTrak currently offers:
- A scheduled product demonstration
- A 60-day guided pilot / proof of concept
- Installation on one pilot production line
- Support from a TeePTrak engineer
- Agreed success criteria before the pilot begins
- Measurement using your own production data
- A decision point before scaling to additional lines or plants
TeePTrak states that if the guided pilot does not identify at least 10% in hidden losses during the 60-day program, the customer pays nothing.
TeePTrak Evaluation Access
Evaluation type: Guided demo + 60-day production-line pilot
Self-service free trial: No
Uses your own production equipment: Yes
Pilot duration: 60 days
Pricing: Quote-based subscription; pricing varies by number of lines, machines and modules.
For Engineering Software Trials, we would classify this as strong evaluation access.
You cannot simply create an account and explore the product yourself, but TeePTrak is willing to put its system on an actual production line and let the data determine whether it delivers value.
That is considerably more useful than watching someone else’s perfect factory in a sales demo.
What Is TeePTrak?
TeePTrak is an industrial performance-monitoring platform focused primarily on real-time OEE, downtime, production losses, quality, process monitoring and continuous improvement.
It is not positioned as a replacement for every function of a traditional Manufacturing Execution System.
In fact, TeePTrak specifically targets manufacturers that want better shop-floor visibility without undertaking a large MES project first.
That distinction matters.
A full MES may manage production orders, routing, work instructions, genealogy, labor, materials and broader manufacturing execution processes.
TeePTrak concentrates on a narrower question:
Where is production capacity being lost, and what can we do about it?
Real-Time OEE With PerfTrak
The core TeePTrak product is PerfTrak, its real-time OEE and downtime monitoring solution.
PerfTrak measures the three components of Overall Equipment Effectiveness:
- Availability
- Performance
- Quality
It also automatically captures machine stops and helps manufacturers categorize the causes behind those losses.
Instead of discovering yesterday’s production problems in tomorrow morning’s spreadsheet, plant teams can see problems while production is still running.
That is important because an OEE number by itself doesn’t fix anything.
The real value comes from understanding why the number changed.
Find the Stops Nobody Records
One of TeePTrak’s biggest selling points is automatic identification of production stops and micro-stops.
Those small interruptions are easy to ignore individually.
A machine stops for two minutes.
A part jams.
An operator resets something.
Production resumes.
Nobody writes it down.
Repeat that dozens of times during a shift and the plant may lose a surprising amount of capacity without having a clear record of where it went.
TeePTrak captures those events automatically and allows an operator to identify the reason for the stop from the shop-floor interface.
The resulting Pareto analysis can reveal which problems account for the largest production losses.
Connect Older Machines Without Replacing Them
TeePTrak may be especially interesting for manufacturers with mixed equipment.
Factories rarely contain nothing but brand-new machines.
A production floor may have:
- New CNC equipment
- Twenty-year-old presses
- Packaging equipment
- Assembly stations
- Robots
- Manual workstations
- Machines from multiple manufacturers
- Different generations of PLCs and controls
TeePTrak says its hardware-agnostic approach can connect machines regardless of age or brand, including installations where direct PLC integration isn’t practical.
Supported industrial connectivity listed by TeePTrak includes technologies such as OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus, PROFINET, Ethernet/IP, Profibus and direct I/O.
That capability should be tested during the pilot.
Don’t ask whether TeePTrak can connect to a machine like yours.
Ask them to connect to your machine.
More Than OEE: TeePTrak Modules
TeePTrak uses a modular product structure, allowing manufacturers to add capabilities depending on what they need to measure.
PerfTrak — OEE and Downtime
PerfTrak provides real-time machine performance, OEE calculation, production monitoring and downtime analysis.
For most manufacturers, this is the logical starting point.
QualTrak — Quality Monitoring
QualTrak digitizes production-line quality controls and connects quality results with manufacturing performance.
It is designed to replace paper quality checks with guided and traceable digital controls.
PaceTrak — Manual Workstation Performance
Machines aren’t the only source of production delays.
PaceTrak measures cycle times and task duration at manual workstations where there may be no machine signal to capture.
That makes it particularly relevant for:
- Manual assembly
- Labor-intensive manufacturing
- Mixed manual/automated production
- Line-balancing studies
ProcessTrak — Continuous and Batch Processes
ProcessTrak is aimed at monitoring process manufacturing environments, including continuous and batch operations.
That can make TeePTrak applicable beyond traditional discrete manufacturing.
MoniTrak — Shop-Floor KPI Displays
MoniTrak displays production indicators for shop-floor teams so operators can see targets, production rates and performance while they work.
The modules can operate independently or share data as part of the broader TeePTrak platform.
Cloud or On-Premise?
TeePTrak supports both cloud and on-premise deployments.
That is worth discussing early in an evaluation, particularly for manufacturers with:
- Corporate cybersecurity requirements
- Restricted plant networks
- IT policies governing cloud manufacturing data
- Multiple plants
- Customer or regulatory requirements
TeePTrak also advertises integration with systems and platforms including SAP, Oracle and Power BI.
What Should You Test During the 60-Day TeePTrak Pilot?
A 60-day production pilot can provide far better evidence than a normal software demonstration—but only if you define what success means before you start.
1. Choose the Right Production Line
Don’t automatically choose your easiest or newest line.
Consider a line where:
- Production frequently misses targets
- Downtime is poorly understood
- Operators report recurring small stops
- Management and operators disagree about the real bottleneck
- Existing OEE numbers are unreliable
- Production data still comes from spreadsheets or paper
A difficult line may tell you much more about TeePTrak than a perfect one.
2. Establish Your Baseline
Before changing anything, establish current performance.
Measure:
- OEE
- Availability
- Throughput
- Scrap
- Downtime
- Changeover losses
- Minor stops
- Cycle-time losses
Otherwise, you may finish the pilot knowing that performance improved but not knowing whether TeePTrak contributed.
3. Test Machine Connectivity
This is one of the most important parts of the evaluation.
How quickly can TeePTrak connect to your equipment?
Does it capture production states accurately?
Does it identify short stops?
Can it handle your older machines?
What requires assistance from maintenance or IT?
A brochure saying “plug and play” is useful.
Watching it work on a twenty-year-old machine in your plant is proof.
4. Put Operators in Front of It
Production-monitoring software succeeds or fails on the shop floor.
Ask operators to identify downtime causes and use the interface during normal production.
Then ask them:
- Is data entry fast?
- Are the downtime choices meaningful?
- Does it interrupt your work?
- Are important stop causes missing?
- Would you actually use this every shift?
If operators hate the system, beautiful management dashboards won’t save it.
5. Look for the Tiny Losses
Don’t limit the pilot to catastrophic machine failures.
Look at:
- Micro-stops
- Slow cycles
- Waiting for material
- Changeovers
- Starved equipment
- Blocked equipment
- Rework
- Scrap
- Operator delays
- Small recurring adjustments
One three-minute stop isn’t interesting.
One hundred three-minute stops may be.
6. Test Whether the Data Changes Behavior
This may be the most important question of all.
Did TeePTrak merely give you better reports?
Or did the information actually cause your team to fix something?
A production-monitoring system earns its keep when visibility leads to action.
TeePTrak vs. MES Software
TeePTrak and MES software overlap, but they are not necessarily substitutes.
A traditional MES can address a broad range of manufacturing execution functions, including:
- Production scheduling and dispatching
- Work-order execution
- Electronic work instructions
- Material tracking
- Product genealogy
- Traceability
- Labor tracking
- Quality
- Production reporting
TeePTrak takes a more focused approach centered on performance visibility, equipment data, downtime, OEE and continuous improvement.
That can make it attractive to a manufacturer thinking:
We know we need better production data, but we aren’t ready for a two-year MES transformation.
It can also potentially complement an existing ERP or MES by providing more detailed machine-level production data.
Who Should Consider TeePTrak?
TeePTrak may be worth evaluating for:
- Manufacturers still calculating OEE manually
- Factories using spreadsheets and paper production reports
- Plants with unexplained downtime
- Facilities with older equipment
- Manufacturers with mixed machine brands
- Companies that need faster production visibility
- Continuous-improvement and Lean manufacturing teams
- Multi-plant organizations trying to standardize OEE reporting
- Companies not ready for a major MES rollout
It may be less suitable if your primary requirement is comprehensive manufacturing execution rather than production-performance monitoring.
That distinction should be settled before you buy anything.
TeePTrak Evaluation Verdict
Evaluation access: Very Good
TeePTrak does not provide the self-service access we saw with an open-source platform such as OpenMES.
But its evaluation approach may actually be more meaningful for this type of product.
The vendor offers a 60-day guided pilot on an actual production line using the manufacturer’s equipment and production data. TeePTrak says success criteria are agreed in advance and the plant can evaluate the measured results before deciding whether to scale.
That’s exactly how production-monitoring software should be evaluated.
A demonstration can show you that TeePTrak has an OEE dashboard.
A pilot can show you whether it discovers the twenty-seven tiny production losses nobody in your plant knew were happening.
Don’t ask TeePTrak to show you its best-performing factory. Ask them to instrument your most troublesome line and show you where the time went.