The topic of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a perennially hot topic in automation. We see it every month in the traffic search data that leads users to the automationworld.com site.

Can you be a world-class manufacturing operation without a world-class focus on equipment reliability and performance? It hardly seems so, given the wealth of risks that accompanies poor or missed ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) combines operations, maintenance, and quality measurements in a single key performance indicator and is an objective way of collecting the lifecycle performance ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a metric designed to evaluate how efficient a production operation truly is based on the real-world availability of the equipment used. Commonly used as a key ...

When it comes to measuring and improving productivity, the question of whether a plant needs an overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) system is top of mind for many plant managers. OEE -- the ratio of ...