The Ignition OEE Downtime Module performs OEE calculations, downtime tracking, asset utilization analysis, production scheduling and work order management. The OEE software is Web-based, which allows ...

If a manufacturer constantly needs to monitor process variables to maintain product quality, manual data collection will just not cut it. That’s the situation Samtec found itself in. With ...

As with any metric, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)—the powerful core metric used in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)—can be misunderstood and misused. In fact, we see it grossly misused at ...

OEE stands for “Overall Equipment Effectiveness” and is an important metric for many companies’ initiatives to establish “Operational Excellence.” There are many different definitions for OEE but it ...

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 ...

Last week, after ThomasNet's R.P. Siegel quoted an LNS Research blog post in his article, "Is OEE An Effective Metric for Assessing Industrial Production?" we decided to ask our followers on Twitter ...

Grade school math teachers are fond of saying that numbers can’t lie. Maybe so, but they can be misleading. In the case of manufacturing, it is a common standard to measure plant productivity by ...

Sligo company SL Controls has obtained Premier Integrator status for Ignition, the digital transformation platform for industrial automation. Ignition by Inductive Automation is the industry-leading ...