Manufacturing Downtime and OEE: How to Use the Data How can you use data from your machines like manufacturing downtime data to improve your production capacity? How can data be used to improve scheduling, reduce waste, or use materials efficiently? Start with...
Production Downtime and OEE: Why Machine Data is Valuable Smart Manufacturing is the use of one or more technologies including IoT, automation and robots, big data, artificial intelligence, and modeling to optimize manufacturing. An efficient manufacturing operation...
Why Should I Calculate OEE Manually? OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is a valuable KPI for how well machines on the plant floor are being utilized. (More information on what OEE is can be found in the Intro to IoT blog post) It is often thought to be a...
How is OEE Calculated OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) provides an indication of how effectively machines are utilized on a manufacturing plant floor. It’s valuable for identifying and removing production constraints and for driving up revenue earned by...
Many companies have jumped on the bandwagon of using OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) as a KPI for their manufacturing equipment, lines, and plants. This article will introduce what OEE is and briefly discuss how it should and should not be used. What is OEE OEE...
The Past 2018 marks 20 years of Ectobox developing solutions outside the box. Ectobox began as a software consulting firm driven by a simple idea: we don’t like to see companies suffer needlessly doing work manually that can hold a business back when there are...
