How I redesigned a brittle legacy feature into a dynamic, user-friendly system—cutting shift-related support tickets by 80% and making factory data truly usable.
It started with a comment in Slack from one of the support engineers.
“Hey—anyone know why shift scheduling is confusing so many customers?”
That opened the floodgates.
I pulled the metrics:
At MachineMetrics, our platform turned real-time machine data into actionable insights. But our shift system—used to define when machines were running—was rigid:
It was a system built on assumptions—not on reality.