MFG Tech Review helps small and midsize manufacturers choose production technology without reading every vendor's website. Every platform is scored on the same 12 published criteria, so the comparison is like-for-like.
Each platform is rated on 12 criteria, scored 0 to 10. Those roll up into the Machine Intelligence Score, a 100-point composite weighted across six dimensions. The weights are published and the score is computed from them, so anyone can reproduce it. No platform has paid to be included or to influence its score.
The current set came from a sweep of the machine monitoring category, chosen to cover the platforms a manufacturer is likely to encounter. New platforms are added when readers ask for them.
These are desk reviews. Scores come from published pricing and documentation, product research, and user reviews, rather than from hands-on deployment. Figures supplied by a vendor are attributed to that vendor.
Every platform's published pricing and documentation are re-checked quarterly, in January, April, July and October. Each entry is checked every time, whether or not anything about it has changed. A quarterly pass covers what a vendor publishes; it does not re-score the platform. Criteria ratings change when the evidence behind them changes, and those changes are dated on the changelog.
Reviews are written and maintained by the MFG Tech Review editorial team. The site began publishing in 2026.
Scores and criteria change as the rubric is corrected, and a reader who wrote a number down in June deserves to know it moved. Every correction to a published score is dated and explained on the changelog.