An apparatus, methods, and systems for data collection in a production environment are described. The system may include a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels, wherein a first subset of the plurality of input channels are connected to a first set of sensors measuring operational parameters from a production component, a data storage structured to store a plurality of collector routes and collected data, a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data of the production component, and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and evaluate a first collection routine of the data collector based on the analyzed collected data, wherein based on the analyzed collected data the data collector makes a collection routine change.