====Synchronised Reporting====

**Synchronised Reporting** is largely used when wanting to look into //quality//.

In process lines and conveyor systems, things don't all happen at once. If you're making snacks on a production line, the cookie you put on the line at 9:00 takes its time to work through the ovens and doesn't reach the packaging machine until 10:22.

If you want to report on the quality of a particular cookie, you can't use the sensor values from any one moment of time - you need to //synchronise// your data so you're looking at sensor values from **when the cookie passes the machine**.

The [[module_linetracking|Line Tracking]] analytic helps create [[tracking hotspot|tracking hotspots]] that move through your line, giving you the times where your product passes into and through the different elements of your system.