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...
