How Consultants Integrate a 48-Hour OEE POC Into a LEAN Engagement A LEAN engagement at a manufacturing client typically runs eight to twelve weeks. The first two weeks are diagnostic, plant walks, stakeholder interviews, historical data review. Weeks three to ten are...
What 4 Years at BCG Taught Me About Designing the Right OEE System TeepTrak was born on a client site. Specifically, on an Essilor production line during a BCG continuous improvement mission around 2013. I had been a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group for about...
Why Top Strategy Consultants Recommend Lightweight OEE Over Full MES If you have spent any meaningful time in a BCG, McKinsey, Bain, Kearney or Roland Berger operations practice over the last five years, you have lived through the same pattern. A manufacturing client...
Evocon Alternative: How a US Manufacturer Achieved 16% OEE Improvement in 90 Days When a mid-sized automotive parts manufacturer in Michigan needed to replace their existing OEE monitoring system, they evaluated multiple platforms before selecting TeepTrak as their...
Real-Time vs Daily: How Frequently Should Your Manufacturing Dashboard Update? Manufacturing dashboard refresh rate is one of the most over-engineered decisions in factory data architecture. The implicit assumption in most dashboard projects is that faster is better,...
Manufacturing Dashboard KPIs That Matter (And 7 Vanity Metrics That Don’t) Manufacturing dashboard KPI selection is one of the least rigorous activities in most plants. The typical process: a committee lists every metric someone has ever tracked, proposes adding...
The Manufacturing Dashboard That Actually Gets Used: 2026 Design Guide Walk into any manufacturing plant today and you will find dashboards everywhere. Large wall-mounted screens in the shop floor showing OEE, production counts, quality rejects. Supervisor monitors...
OEE Calculation Mistakes That Inflate Your Numbers by 10-18 Points Most plants reporting OEE of 70-80% are actually measuring 55-62% when calculation is done to standard definitions. The 10-18 point inflation is not intentional dishonesty; it is the cumulative effect...
World-Class OEE: What Is It and How Close Are You Actually? The 85% world-class OEE benchmark is probably the most quoted number in manufacturing operations literature. It appears in every continuous improvement training program, every lean certification, and most...
How to Calculate OEE: The Complete 2026 Formula Guide with Real Examples OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is the most widely adopted KPI in manufacturing operations globally, but it is also the most inconsistently calculated. The same plant can report OEE of 78%...
