The Measurement Trap Walk into most modern factories and you’ll find the same scene: OEE dashboards on office walls, weekly performance reports in managers’ inboxes, and shift summaries neatly filed away. Everyone’s measuring overall equipment...
The illusion of good overall equipment effectiveness “Our OEE is excellent we’re at 78%.” We hear this often. Plant managers showing us their spreadsheets, confident in their numbers. Until we install sensors and start measuring for real. Then that...
Most factories proudly calculate their OEE in Excel. When you ask how to calculate OEE, they’ll show you spreadsheets with formulas, color-coded cells, and weekly reports that look professional enough to present in any boardroom. But here’s the problem:...
Most manufacturers proudly report their OEE every week but few truly understand what this key performance indicator actually measures. Walk into any factory and ask about their Overall Equipment Effectiveness. You’ll get a confident number: “We’re...
OPC UA Monitoring Overview OPC UA monitoring is real-time time monitoring of production data using the Unified Architecture protocol developed by the OPC Foundation. This approach tracks Overall Equipment Effectiveness by capturing machine status, production counts,...
