“…Table 2 is presented a summarized description of the main contributions put forward by the corresponding authors of the sources analysed, based on a set of six main criteria considered for comparative analysis with the proposed visualization decision support approach. In general, and according to the information presented in Table 2, it is possible to realize that a range of five varying contributions or approaches is being put forward (A1 (Stadnicka, 2015), A2 (Mayr et al, 2018), A3 (Gonnermann & Reinhart, 2019), A4 (Vinodh et al, 2011), andA5 (Wu et al, 2018)), for instance during the last decade varying in terms of type of approaches, methodologies or methods and underlying tools that have been used, concerning setup data representation, processing, analysis and visualization or monitoring, for different industrial sectors and manufacturing environments, with several distinct specificities and requests, for accomplishing differed purposes and by considering different manufacturing systems' performance measures and setup variables. Legend: A1 (Stadnicka, 2015), A2 (Mayr et al, 2018), A3 (Gonnermann & Reinhart, 2019), A4 (Vinodh et al, 2011), A5 (Wu et al, 2018, A6 (proposed decision support visualization approach and underlying tool).…”