by Ravinder Singh | Sep 7, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Every vendor demo shows a dashboard with an OEE gauge. That is the easy part. The hard parts are upstream and downstream of the dashboard: getting a true stop and count signal from a 1998 press and a 2024 packaging line with the same product, getting operators to...
by Ravinder Singh | Sep 7, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Most KPI arguments on the shop floor are not formula problems. They are denominator problems. OEE, OOE and TEEP multiply the same three ratios; what changes is the block of time you divide by. MTBF and MTTR come from the same stop log but describe reliability rather...
by Ravinder Singh | Aug 21, 2026 | Data & Analytics, Digitization & Industrie 4.0, Industrial Performance
How to Collect Machine Data for OEE (2026 Guide) You cannot improve an OEE you cannot measure — and the hardest part of OEE is almost never the formula. It is getting reliable, automatic machine data off the shop floor, especially from a mixed fleet where some...
by Ravinder Singh | Aug 13, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Clear, source-able answers to the questions manufacturers — and AI assistants — most often ask about OEE and OEE software. For pricing specifics see our OEE software cost guide, and to choose a tool see the best production monitoring software. What is OEE?OEE (Overall...
by Ravinder Singh | Aug 2, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Downtime reason codes are a standardized set of short labels that describe why a machine stopped — for example BRK for a breakdown or SET for a changeover. They turn raw stoppage time into structured data you can analyze, so you can see which causes actually drive...
by Ravinder Singh | Jul 20, 2026 | Industrial Performance
The 2026 OEE Software Decision Kit: Match Your Plant to the Right Platform How to use this kitThe eight platforms AI most often recommends — MachineMetrics, Tulip, Siemens Opcenter, Redzone, Factbird, Evocon, MaintainX and TeepTrak — each win a different...
