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CASE STUDY
OEE Solutions Provide the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ to
Improved Plant Performance
Manufacturers can improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by using tools such as FactoryTalk Metrics and VantagePoint from Rockwell Automation to organize data and provide contextual analysis.
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FactoryTalk® Metrics and VantagePoint Improve OEE
FactoryTalk Metrics from Rockwell Automation provides detailed information on the performance of production equipment. It begins with a comprehensive Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) system for measuring machine, line and plant efficiency that uses data already present in control systems and HMIs... Read more
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One of the common improvement measures manufacturers use to affect performance changes is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Simply put, OEE pits overall plant capability against actual performance; it's established by determining overall capacity and planned production time, and then calculating loss due to downtime (availability), speed loss (performance), or throughput loss (quality).
But the bottom-line is that “you can't improve what you can't measure,” says Le Roy Howe, Technical Consultant, Information Solutions, Rockwell Automation. Even the simplest metrics implementation can provide guidance to operators seeking an indication of how a line is running today vs. yesterday or last week—delivering real results to the plant's balance sheet... Read more
TECH OVERVIEW  Better Decisions Require More Visibility
Learn how Manufacturing Intelligence solutions support enterprise decision-making by monitoring plant equipment OEE across disparate systems.
As manufacturing operations continually demand a better bottom-line, plant managers and operators seek more and better performance from their existing processes and systems. Providing those improvements requires analysis of a range of such performance measurements as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). But an OEE calculation—the calculation of overall plant capacity versus actual plant performance—is never better than the values used to compute it.
FactoryTalk® Metrics from Rockwell Automation is critical to providing accurate, measurable and actionable information off the plant floor. Metrics monitors plant-floor equipment to provide timely information about machine performance, and tracks event history on that machine to help operators understand the causes of weaknesses or failures in that performance. As a result, manufacturers are able to achieve lower overhead and manufacturing costs, better manage capacity, and extend the useful life of existing capital equipment... Read more
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