OEE – Importance for your company
Machine monitoring: Visualizing key figures, increasing effectiveness
If you work with a large fleet of machines, you are probably familiar with the following challenge: You know the individual machines and are aware of roughly how old and efficient they are, but you lack an overall view. If you want to know how effective your production operations are and how much energy they are consuming, this generally requires labor-intensive individual evaluations that are tallied up for a final result. This is where OEE can make your life much easier: Network your equipment and benefit from a central evaluation.
Central monitoring offers many advantages
- Clear overview of the complete production plant
- A central platform for all parties – from the plant engineers to the integrator and the end user
- Straightforward maintenance and microservices via central remote access
- Alerts in the event of error messages
- Overview of machine logs
Monitoring allows you to detect and optimize weak points. This increases effectiveness and ultimately reduces costs.
What is OEE?
The abbreviation OEE stands for Overall Equipment Effectiveness. By definition, Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a business metric used to measure the productivity of technical equipment and machinery. Put simply, OEE allows you to see how effectively your production operations are running and where there is a need for optimization.
How does monitoring work?
Central monitoring is of utmost importance when determining OEE. This means networking all of your production equipment so that all machine data is automatically sent to a central platform. On this platform, you can now visualize all plants and equipment (regardless of manufacturer) and evaluate the corresponding data. This gives you a clear overview of your production performance, allowing you to see peak energy consumption levels at a glance, for example, or bundle information on the utilization of individual machines.
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