ZOOMFAB manufacturing supervisory system (MSS) has been developed specifically for sheet metal fabrication and machining industries. ZOOMFAB is a SaaS solution that includes machine monitoring with wireless IIoT sensors to collect the data directly from the machines. As no internal IT infrastructure is required, deployment is fast, safe and economical. ZOOMFAB takes on effective production management and productivity improvement roles not available by most ERP systems. Compared to MES, ZOOMFAB MSS excels with practicality, cost-effectiveness, speed and easy implementation; it is an ideal tool for businesses with or without an ERP system.