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.

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 ...

Fueled by the proliferation of industrial data and push for data-driven business practices, OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) remains a core manufacturing metric given its ability to boil complex ...

Question: How should set-up time be factored into the OEE calculation? Answer: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a powerful metric used to improve the effective use of resources, by machine.

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 ...