Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) continues to gain in popularity as manufacturers seek to quantify plant, manufacturing line, and machine-level performance and find ways each area can be improved ...

While OEE is a must-have for troubleshooting line problems, contextualized OEE data with its time signatures is a key input in analyzing when and what went wrong with a plant’s total production ...

Continuously optimizing manufacturing operations around concepts like OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) and Lean Manufacturing may seem outdated in the age of Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet ...

Ever since I first encountered discussions of OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) several years ago, there always seemed to be a disconnect in the way vendors talked about it versus how engineers ...

Manufacturers are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and enhance productivity as a means of fighting in increasingly competitive environments. One key metric at the heart of this ...

Manufacturing today is becoming steadily more competitive, and manufacturing businesses are always looking to improve the productivity — and the profitability — of their operations. As such, they must ...

When it comes to measuring and improving productivity, the question of whether a plant needs an overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) system is top of mind for many plant managers. OEE -- the ratio of ...