KinetiQ™ — Find the Wasted Steps on Your Floor
See how far your crew actually walks, which paths eat the most time, and where to move equipment to cut steps — all from the wearables they already carry.
What KinetiQ tracks
Every shop has a speed problem it can't see: the walking. KinetiQ measures it. It records steps and distance for each operator, ties that movement to your shop's zones, and surfaces the patterns — which paths get walked most, where people stop, and where the layout is costing you time. It also keeps an eye on operator fatigue so a long shift doesn't quietly turn into mistakes. The data comes from connected wearables (an Apple Watch, a Wear OS watch, or a phone in a pocket) — there are no cameras and nothing bolted to the walls.
Where to find it
Open KinetiQ from the dashboard sidebar (KinetiQ). It opens on the overview, and from there you can move to the floor-plan heat map and the KinetiQ readiness dashboard. If you've just turned it on, expect empty states until your wearables start reporting — once operators are on the floor with a connected device, the numbers fill in on their own.
KinetiQ lives in the dashboard for owners and managers. If you don't see it in the sidebar, it's an access-level setting — ask whoever manages your shop's roles.
Read the overview
The overview is your at-a-glance read of the floor. Four headline numbers sit at the top:
- 1Total Steps Today — every active operator's steps, combined.
- 2Avg Motion Efficiency — how much of the floor's movement is productive versus wandering.
- 3Active Operators — who's currently on the floor with a connected device.
- 4Fatigue Alerts — how many operators have crossed a fatigue threshold and need attention.
Below the headline numbers, each operator gets a card with their steps, distance, efficiency score, steps-per-piece, and fatigue risk. When KORA has a genuine insight to flag — like an operator running high on steps — it shows up under Today's Insights. KinetiQ won't invent suggestions; if there's nothing real to say, the panel stays quiet.
Read the zone heat map
The heat map is where motion turns into a picture of your floor. It needs two things first: your zones placed on a floor plan, and wearables reporting movement. Once both are in place, each mapped zone shows how many steps happened there, how many different operators passed through, and the average time spent — so dead zones and over-trafficked corners jump out. Click any zone (on the map or in the zone list) to see its detail.
Watch the Top Traffic Paths list. It ranks the busiest zone-to-zone trips and shows steps per trip — the single fastest way to spot a path that's costing you, like an ink room that's too far from the press.
Read the readiness dashboard
The KinetiQ dashboard is about people, not just paths. Each operator gets a daily reserve score from 0 to 100 with a plain recommendation — Normal load, Light rotation, No heavy lift, or Rest day — so you can rotate the crew before anyone burns out. A 14-day trend shows whether someone's reserve is climbing or sliding, and a fatigue-events feed flags real-time signals like cadence drop, an unusual heart-rate spike, a steadiness drop, or a detected fall. Acknowledge an event once you've checked on the person so it's marked as handled.
Reserve scores and fatigue events are advisory only — they are not medical advice and not a substitute for OSHA-compliant safety monitoring. Use them as an early heads-up, not a diagnosis.
Act on floor-plan optimization
Data without action is a screensaver, so KinetiQ closes the loop with the floor-plan builder. Lay out your room and equipment, drag pieces around, and watch the motion score update as you go — then let KORA suggest specific moves (for example, shifting a station to cut a recurring long walk), ranked by confidence so you know which changes are worth the effort. When you land on a layout you like, export it to PDF to hand to whoever's moving the equipment.
- 1Open the floor-plan builder and set your room dimensions and equipment.
- 2Drag equipment and zones into place; the motion score updates live as you experiment.
- 3Review KORA's suggested moves and start with the highest-confidence ones.
- 4Export the layout to PDF and use it as the plan for rearranging the floor.
You don't have to draw the floor by hand. You can walk the shop with your phone camera to build the layout — see the floor-plan phone-scan guide for the fastest way to get started.
Make it a habit
KinetiQ pays off as a weekly rhythm, not a one-time look. Check the overview for the day's efficiency and any fatigue alerts, glance at the top traffic paths once a week to catch a costly route, and revisit the floor-plan builder whenever you add equipment or change what you're running. Small moves — a station shifted a few feet, an operator rotated before they fade — add up to real capacity without buying a thing.