Manufacturers are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and enhance productivity as a means of fighting in increasingly competitive environments. One key metric at the heart of this ...

Overall equipment efficiency (OEE) is described as a crucial metric for assessing manufacturing equipment effectiveness in this article from partner publication Control Design, emphasizing the need to ...

The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metric continues to serve as a vital benchmark across global manufacturing systems, quantifying efficiency through the integrated assessment of machine ...

The importance of preventive maintenance, advanced technologies and strategic decision-making to reduce downtime, optimize processes and enhance overall equipment usage and productivity in ...

Manufacturing today is becoming steadily more competitive, and manufacturing businesses are always looking to improve the productivity — and the profitability — of their operations. As such, they must ...

CAT Squared's OEE Software Module is simplistic in its interface, but extremely intuitive. One of CAT Squared's customers realized a return on investment in one quarter (three months) after ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) continues to gain in popularity as manufacturers seek to quantify plant, manufacturing line, and machine-level performance and find ways each area can be improved ...

When optimizing your production, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) provides a valuable independent measure of how well a piece of equipment performs over time. It also helps gauge the impact of ...

Editor’s note: This is part one of a four-part series on understanding and implementing overall equipment effectiveness strategy. This series is sponsored by SafetyChain Software. For many food ...

Question: How should set-up time be factored into the OEE calculation? Answer: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a powerful metric used to improve the effective use of resources, by machine.