Big Data/IoT/KPIs

OEE: How to Calculate Overall Equipment Effectiveness

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) takes the three sources of manufacturing productivity loss: Availability, Performance and Quality, and creates metrics that provide a consistent way to measure the effectiveness of a machine or process. Availability Factor The Availability Factor of the…
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February 25, 2016

Automated Production Monitoring of Your Plant Floor – For Real!

Wow, I just made a personal promise to our customer that we will be able to complete their order tonight and ship it on an…

June 4, 2015

Why Big Data and Baseball Aren’t So Different

Digital technology creates, records and stores a lot of data. That data could be from your personal vehicle, your company website or your factory floor. …

March 27, 2014

Manufacturing and the Internet of Things: Destined for Greatness

Loosely defined, the Internet of Things (IoT, for short) is the concept of connecting everything imaginable to a network so that information can be quickly…

February 20, 2014

The Future of Technology at Home and the Internet of Things

Welcome to 2014, the future is now. There are so many amazing new technologies that are coming out, as well as companies that are pushing…

May 4, 2010

Measuring for Manufacturing ERP Benefits

If you can't measure it you can't improve it?! How many times have we heard that before? But when we go into manufacturing companies looking…

OEE: How to Calculate Overall Equipment Effectiveness