Morsa publishes this guide. Morsa is not OEE software. Its AI agent finds the orders a machine stop puts at risk, and a planner approves the fix. Prices read 8 November 2026.
Quick answer
CNC shop: Scytec DataXchange Gold, $89 a machine a month plus $2,000 once, reads part counts, scrap and OEE straight from the control: $12,680 in year one for 10 machines, about $14,800 for 12 [1]. MachineMetrics and Datanomix also read the control, on quote.
Older machines with no networked control: a sensor tool. MachineCDN is the cheapest at $45 a month with the sensor, but it only senses running or stopped [3].
One line, no subscription: Vorne XL, $4,490 a unit once [6].
How to calculate OEE itself is in our OEE guide.
OEE software prices, vendor by vendor
Factbird prices per production line and Tulip per interface (a tablet or computer running its apps). In the year-one table below we count one machine as one line or one interface.
Tool | How it is priced | Published price |
|---|---|---|
Scytec DataXchange | Per machine a month, plus one-time activation by tier | Bronze $47 (cycles, utilization), Silver $68 (adds alarms, alerts, operator downtime reasons), Gold $89 (adds part and program numbers, good and scrap counts, OEE), Platinum $140 (high-frequency CNC data); activation $1,000 to $2,500; 4% off on a 1-year term, 10% on 2 years; volume discounts from 11 machines, 10% at 30 [1] |
Evocon | Per machine a month, billed annually | Basic $219 (1-year) or $189 (3-year); Professional $289 or $249; Enterprise $379 or $319; connection device $24 or $19 a month [2] |
MachineCDN | Per asset a month, month to month | $45 with vibration and temperature sensor; $38 for 51 to 200 assets [3] |
Tulip | Per interface a month, billed annually | Essentials $100, Professional $250; 10-interface minimum [5] |
Factbird | Per line, plus platform fee | From $399 a line a month; platform from $1,000 a site a month [4] |
Vorne XL | One-time per unit | XL810-1 $4,490, XL HD+ $4,690, XL Touch $4,990; no recurring fees; 90-day trial [6] |
Sepasoft OEE Downtime | Perpetual site license | $22,700 a site, unlimited machines; an add-on to the Ignition platform, sold separately [7] |
FourJaw | Per machine a month, 5-machine minimum (UK vendor, priced in pounds) | Standard £72 annual or £90 monthly, plus £200 device once; Pro £144 or £180, hardware included [9] |
Guidewheel | Annual, by machines and sites | From $25,000 a year; the page does not say for how many machines [8] |
MachineMetrics, Datanomix, Amper, TeepTrak | Quote only | Datanomix prices per machine per year, not per user [11] |
Scytec’s Bronze tier tracks utilization but not OEE; Gold is its first tier with part counts and OEE. Factbird’s page also shows $250 a line on a two-year agreement with a $1,000 base fee and a 2% support fee [4]; ask which applies.
Year one for 5, 10 and 30 machines
Our arithmetic at list price, before install labor and network.
Tool and plan | Year 1: 5 / 10 / 30 machines |
|---|---|
MachineCDN: $45 × 12 | $2,700 / $5,400 / $16,200 |
Scytec Gold, monthly term: $89 × 12, plus $2,000 activation; 10% off at 30 | $7,340 / $12,680 / $30,836 |
Tulip Essentials: 10-interface minimum, $100 × 12 | $12,000 / $12,000 / $36,000 |
Evocon Basic, 3-year term: ($189 + $19 device) × 12 | $12,480 / $24,960 / $74,880 |
Evocon Basic, 1-year term: ($219 + $24 device) × 12 | $14,580 / $29,160 / $87,480 |
Vorne XL810-1: $4,490 a unit, once | $22,450 / $44,900 / $134,700 |
Factbird: $399 a line × 12, plus $12,000 platform | $35,940 / $59,880 / $155,640 |
MachineCDN senses vibration and temperature; it does not read the CNC control or count parts [3]. Vorne costs the most up front and nothing after year one. Over three years, ten machines cost $34,040 on Scytec Gold, $44,900 on Vorne, $74,880 on Evocon’s 3-year term and $87,480 on Evocon renewed yearly.
Which tools read a CNC control directly
Tool | How it gets the data |
|---|---|
Scytec DataXchange | From the control over the network; lists Fanuc, Haas, Mazak, Okuma, Siemens and Heidenhain, and MTConnect [1][12] |
MachineMetrics | Native connection over MTConnect, Fanuc FOCAS, OPC-UA and others; digital I/O for old controls with no network port, which gives cycles and states only [13] |
Datanomix | Ethernet, Wi-Fi or serial port to the control; lists Haas, Fanuc, Mazak, Okuma and others; an amp clamp for machine state on legacy machines [11] |
Evocon, Vorne XL, FourJaw | Their own device on a signal you wire: a PLC (programmable logic controller) output, relay or sensor [2][6][9] |
MachineCDN, Guidewheel | Clip-on sensors: vibration (MachineCDN) or power draw (Guidewheel); running, idle or down, no part counts [3][8] |
A networked Haas or Fanuc control needs no sensor and no electrician, only a network drop at the machine. An older control without Ethernet needs a serial link or a digital I/O box.
What install and network add
Item | What to budget |
|---|---|
Connection device | Included at MachineCDN and FourJaw Pro; Evocon rents its device at $19 to $24 a month; FourJaw Standard £200 once [2][3][9] |
Wiring for sensor tools | Worximity says about 1 hour a machine [10]; our estimate is 1 to 2 hours of electrician time at $100 an hour, so $1,000 to $2,000 for 10 machines. Control-reading tools skip this |
Network | Wi-Fi or Ethernet at each machine, or cellular: FourJaw 4G is £14 a machine a month [9] |
Does it pay back?
One OEE point is 1% of run hours times what an hour earns. In our example, 10 machines running 3,000 hours a year at $60 an hour of margin gain $18,000 a year per point, more than Scytec, Tulip or MachineCDN cost in year one. Put your own hourly figure into the downtime cost calculator.
When a machine stop threatens an order
The OEE tool records the stop; someone still has to save the job. Morsa is software with an AI agent that works in your ERP, email and Teams, on top of any tool above and whichever ERP you run (JobBOSS2, ProShop, Global Shop, Business Central and others).
CNC 7 logs 50 minutes “waiting on material”. Morsa finds the job in the ERP: 400 brackets due Thursday.
It finds the bar stock PO two days late, drafts an expedite to the supplier and shows CNC 9 free tomorrow.
The planner approves the move and the buyer approves the expedite. Morsa sends it from the buyer’s mailbox, updates the ERP schedule and tells the supervisor in Teams.
To see it on your own machines, book a 30-minute walkthrough.
What to do this week
List each machine and how it can send data: networked control, older control, PLC, or only a power cable.
Price two published options from the tables for that count, and ask one quote-only vendor for a written 3-year number.
Run a free trial on your bottleneck machine: Vorne gives 90 days, Worximity 30 [6][10].
Name who reviews the stop reasons each morning before the data starts flowing.
Sources
Scytec, DataXchange pricing: https://www.scytec.com/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Evocon, Pricing: https://evocon.com/pricing/ (read 8 November 2026)
MachineCDN, Pricing: https://www.machinecdn.com/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Factbird, Pricing: https://www.factbird.com/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Tulip, Pricing: https://tulip.co/pricing/ (read 8 November 2026)
Vorne, XL models (XL810-1, XL HD+, XL Touch product pages): https://www.vorne.com/products/xl/models/xl810-1-productivity-appliance/ (read 8 November 2026)
Sepasoft, Pricing: https://www.sepasoft.com/pricing/ (read 8 November 2026)
Guidewheel, Pricing: https://www.guidewheel.com/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
FourJaw, Pricing: https://fourjaw.com/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Worximity, Pricing: https://www.worximity.com/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Datanomix, Production monitoring: https://datanomix.io/production-monitoring/ (read 8 November 2026)
Scytec, home page (machines supported): https://scytec.com/ (read 8 November 2026)
MachineMetrics, Machine connectivity: https://www.machinemetrics.com/machine-connectivity (read 8 November 2026)
