TrakSYSTM is a software system designed to help manage manufacturing operations and performance in real time. It does this through collecting data from different sources, enabling stakeholders to be involved interactively, performing advanced analytics, and facilitating intelligence-based decision making. TrakSYSTM aims to measurably improve manufacturing operations through leveraging existing infrastructure, facilitating regulatory compliance, and driving performance improvement methodically and quickly. It provides an application stack and methodology to manage all aspects of manufacturing operations through a unified configuration environment.