System and method for increasing employee productivity through gamification

A system for increasing employee productivity in a production process, comprising:

• a series of machines, each configured to accommodate an employee and assist the employee with accomplishing an aspect of a production activity for a common assembly line, wherein each of the machines comprise a data acquiring device configured to measure one or more actual production metrics of for the respective machine in substantially real time;
• a database in electronic communication with each of the machines by way of an electronic interface and comprising a pay rate associated with each employee and one or more predetermined thresholds associated with each employee;
• one or more processors in electronic communication with the data acquiring devices and adapted to receive the actual production metric from each of the data acquiring devices, retrieve the pay rate and predetermined thresholds associated with each employee, determine a real-time-pay rate for each of the employees, and determine whether the real-time-pay-rate exceeds one or more of the retrieved predetermined thresholds;
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• a common display associated with the one or more processors, wherein the display is configured to, in substantially real time, display each employee's relative ranking based on the employee's real-time-pay rate, a visualization reflecting each employee's real-time-pay rate, and a graphic indicating whether each employee's real-time-pay rate exceeds one or more of the predetermined thresholds.

A method for increasing employee productivity in a production process, comprising the steps of:

• providing a series of machines, each associated with an employee, for accomplishing a production activity;
• storing, at a database in electronic communication with each of the machines, a pay rate for each employee for the production activity and one or more predetermined thresholds associated with each employee;
• monitoring, by way of data acquiring devices, each associated with one of the machines, an actual production metric for each of said series of machines for said production activity in substantially real time;
• retrieving the pay rate for each employee from the database;
• receiving the actual production metric for each employee from the respective data acquiring device;
• determining, at the processor, a real-time-pay rate for each employee based on the actual production metric and the pay rate for the employee;
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• displaying, at a display associated with each of the series of machines, in substantially real-time, a ranking of each employee comprising each employee's real-time-pay rate, a visualization reflecting the real-time-pay rate of each employee, and a graphic indicating whether each employee's real-time-pay rate exceeds one or more of the predetermined thresholds.