Few argue about the value of production insights delivered by the well-known OEE calculation. In essence, OEE is a great tool to help understand how well a line is running. This metric can be used to ...

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is widely accepted in the manufacturing industry as a ‘must-have’ for operational effectiveness and improvement. It’s a crucial element for improving ...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a four-part series on understanding and implementing overall equipment effectiveness strategy. This series is sponsored by SafetyChain Software. When it comes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a fundamental shift in what's possible on the factory floor and it's being transformed by embedded AI, agentic ...

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 ...

Sigma Venturi, a California based manufacturing optimization and software development company, launches their second product this month, a best in its class OEE calculator, for iPhone and iPad. In ...

Traditional OEE often masks micro-level inefficiencies that accumulate into major production losses. Micro OEE (mOEE) measures efficiency at the smallest production steps, enabling precise ...

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 ...

The courses offered in this catalog are a curated collection of learning materials that provide an overview of Industry 4.0. It is designed to provide resources that businesses can use to understand ...

For most manufacturers, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is still a holy grail metric. But with their new OEE app for the Cumulocity IoT plaform, Software AG hopes to change that. Here's how a ...