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Workforce Technology Boosts Manufacturing Metrics

Gary Mintchell

They use OEE as one measure of effectiveness because it’s an easy way to benchmark, a good way to compare. However, Redzone acknowledges that OEE can also be easily gamed by operators and others, so they apply filters to try to standardize data as much as possible.

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Important Smart Factory KPIs

Gary Mintchell

For manufacturers: The data provide an opportunity to benchmark against industry peers. Most important operational KPI: Increase in OEE. Across all regions and industries, respondents are highly focused on improving operational performance, including overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), labor efficiency, and output.

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What is Idle Time in Manufacturing?

ATS

Weaker OEE scores : Since idle time directly affects actual production time, it negatively impacts your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) rating. Reducing idle time doesn’t just boost metrics — it creates a more responsive, cost-effective, and resilient operation.

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Australian craft brewers ramp up production but are held back by unplanned downtime

AU Manufacturing

Overall, the average craft brewer could be producing 4,836 more beers – an almost 75% increase – per hour with the same production schedule. It includes key performance benchmark data and explains why knowing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) can make a significant impact on a brewer’s bottom line.

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How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry?

Factory Worx

How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the go-to metric for food manufacturing facilities to recognise losses and benchmarking advancement toward improving throughput performance.

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Industrial Maintenance KPIs: Measuring Success & Efficiency

ATS

Many businesses use Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as a KPI, and the maintenance function will measure activities, (use metrics), that contribute to this goal. Use technology for real-time tracking: IoT devices on equipment automate data collection and support predictive maintenance solutions.

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Predictive Maintenance as a Service: A game-changer for Manufacturing.

Infinite Uptime

OEE : Standing for Overall Equipment Effectiveness OEE is a globally prevalent metric that measures the productivity of a manufacturing asset. Calculated as a product of equipment availability, performance & quality of output produced, OEE is a benchmark for comparing the productivity of plants.