OEE

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Finally achieve true OEE Measurement Tracking and Analysis

OEE inspite of being one of the best concepts to be used in manufacturing plants has not taken off with even the best software tools being made available by almost all plant automation vendors. The reason for OEE remaining a pipe dream is the manual nature of data entry that is required for all data in OEE calculation to be useful. Manual data can be extremely error prone and does not have any real time aspects in its calculations.

OEE Data Capture

The key values that are required to calculate OEE are almost always captured manually in many plants. As a result the OEE project start with lot of fanfare and after sometime fizzle out as no one believes the fundamental data being used to calculate and analyze OEE.

PROBLEM

Today a large section of manufacturing facilities capture OEE data manually through error-prone operator collection process.

SOLUTION

All aspects of OEE data collection can be automated by using the UniFieD data collection module for OEE and use the out-of-box OEE calculations to fully automate the OEE process.

BENEFIT

Any automated OEE collection and tracking become a reliable metric for plant management as well as operational staff to focus on the corrective mechanism such that OEE levels can be optimized instead of focusing and wasting time on error prone manual data collection.

USE CASE

A factory with 10 lines of packaging machines can deploy the full OEE kit from iSPARK including UniFieD devices as well as easy to configure OEE calculations. The same are sent to the plant historian for further analysis and integration with dashboards. This can lead to improvements of up to 10% points on OEE for packaging lines.