If you are a leader in manufacturing right now, you are drinking from the firehose. Between the unexpected events of employees exposure or diagnosis with COVID, you are also managing material shortages and order changes at an unprecedented level. Your life right now feels especially chaotic, and there is no real antidote for that chaos.
Many organizations that I work with have this concern when we first start discussing a software for tracking performance of individuals on the shop floor.
When most manufacturers are trying to impact productivity, they are focused on improving the number of units produced per labor hour. If a manufacturer can get more units out for the same or less labor put into the units, they will have improved their labor productivity.