Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Meaning and Benefits of OEE
With Orchestra to more Connectivity and Transparency
Time and cost pressures are forcing more and more companies to produce high-quality products more effectively and at lower cost. This means that production processes must be designed to be as waste-free as possible. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) offers enormous potential in production optimization. It is a key figure with which the overall equipment effectiveness can be measured – and which ultimately ensures optimized, effective, and efficient production.
What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?
Definition of Overall Equipment Effectiveness
OEE Optimization: Why is good overall equipment effectiveness so important?
The recording of overall plant effectiveness is now standard in manufacturing companies. It makes problems and defects visible and reveals unplanned losses of a plant. Only in this way can suitable optimization measures be initiated, machines be better utilized – and production thus take place more effectively and efficiently.
Optimize performance and quality in production using OEE
good overall equipment effectiveness means:
- A utilization of the machines as high as possible
- An increase in plant productivity
- Minimized use of resources
- A reduction in costs while maximizing output
- With a good OEE, “bottle necks” can be identified → so capacity can be increased at low cost
The production chain is only as strong as its weakest link!
“Hurdle” Industry 4.0 – Data analysis with Orchestra in the context of OEE
Evaluating the efficiency of production plants usually requires a high degree of translation work. This requires close cooperation with PLC and plant workers – because that’s where the knowledge about the processes is bundled.
Long-term benefits of good Overall Asset Effectiveness
The key figure of OEE finally creates transparency in one’s own production. In addition, the plant effectiveness provides a reliable key figure for further evaluations and optimizations. In addition, Overall Equipment Efficiency ensures the following three benefits in the long term:
Increase in quality
Through more uniform utilization of existing plants
Increase in plant productivity
Through targeted evaluation processes
Fit for the Smart Factory
Through connectivity and transparency
OEE with Orchestra Industrial Suite:
Benefits of data analysis and provisioning with soffico
Orchestra does not just deliver numbers – but numerous advantages for your production:
All plant data is collected, pre-processed, and buffered by Orchestra. The MES uses the valuable data from Orchestra to precisely calculate the overall plant effectiveness. In addition, the data is also available to other systems. In this way, production works more efficiently in the long term – and gets ready for the Smart Factory.
Orchestra also offers manufacturing companies numerous other benefits:
Future proofing
Data security
Transparency & data sovereignty
Investment protection
Stability & Reliability
Edge-Architecture
Sarah Blomeier