OEE per machine and day, and the machine board on a TV
OEE is worked out every hour for each machine and day from its running time and the pieces counted at the terminal. It is split into availability, performance and quality. A machine board on a TV shows every machine as working, stopped or idle.
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The problem it solves
- Machines look busy, yet output falls short, and nobody can say whether it was stoppages, slow running or rejects.
- OEE is worked out once a month in a spreadsheet, too late to act on.
- A stopped machine at the far end of the shop goes unnoticed for an hour.
How it works
- Operators start, pause, stop and count their jobs at the shop floor terminal. The machine's running and stopped time and the good and rejected pieces are recorded as they work.
- Every hour, OEE is worked out for yesterday and today, per machine. Availability is running time against the machine's planned hours. Performance is the ideal minutes for the pieces made against running time. Quality is good pieces against all pieces.
- Supervisors open Manufacturing > Reporting > OEE: a pivot, a line graph and a list of the last 30 days, by machine or plant. Work Out the Last 7 Days refreshes the figures now.
- Put a TV on the floor signed in as a shop floor user and open Shop Floor > Machine Board. Each machine is a tile, green, red or grey, with its job, today's good and rejected pieces and its OEE. It refreshes every 30 seconds.
Everything it does
How OEE is worked out
- Planned minutes: the machine's working hours that day from its calendar, after leave
- Running minutes: time logged as productive or slower than standard; stopped minutes: time lost to stoppages and quality
- Availability: running against planned, at most 100 %; a machine with no calendar that ran counts 100 %
- Performance: ideal minutes (each piece's expected minutes from its job) against running, at most 100 %
- Quality: good pieces against good and rejected, from the terminal's counts; jobs never counted at the terminal use their finished quantity with no rejects
- OEE: availability times performance times quality
The OEE report
- One row per machine and day, with its plant and Entity
- Planned, running and stopped minutes; good and rejected pieces; ideal minutes; the four percentages
- Pivot, line graph and list; Last 30 Days to start with; group by machine or plant; averages per group
- Worked out every hour for yesterday and today; Work Out the Last 7 Days on the list
- Read by supervisors and above; changed only by the hourly job
The machine board
- Full screen for a TV: every machine of the Entity as a tile, in its order
- Working (a job running: order and item), Stopped (with the stop reason) or Idle
- Today's good and rejected pieces, OEE, and availability, performance and quality
- Counts of machines working, stopped and idle at the top, and the time
- Refreshes every 30 seconds
- Opens for any user with a shop floor role
Who uses it
OperatorStarts, stops and counts jobs at the terminal; the figures come from this.
SupervisorWatches the machine board and reads the OEE report.
Production ManagerCompares OEE by machine and plant over weeks and acts on the biggest loss.
Maintenance TechnicianSees stopped machines and their reasons on the board.
Where you use it
- Web: Manufacturing > Reporting > OEE (supervisors and above)
- Web: Manufacturing > Shop Floor > Machine Board, full screen on a TV's browser, signed in as a shop floor user
- The shop floor terminal: a web page in a tablet's browser, where the time and counts come from
- Not in the SmartMy Manufacturing app (built and in testing, not in the app stores yet): this screen is on the web
- Not from machines directly: no PLC or sensor feed; running time and counts come from the terminal
What you control
Settings
- Per machine: its working calendar (planned hours) and the expected minutes of its steps
- Stop reasons: the machine's loss reasons, picked at the terminal
Questions
Do we need sensors on the machines?
No. OEE comes from what operators record at the shop floor terminal: start, pause, stop with a reason, good and rejected pieces. Reading machines directly over a PLC is not offered.How often are the figures updated?
The report is worked out every hour for yesterday and today, or at once with Work Out the Last 7 Days. The machine board works out today's figures each time it refreshes, every 30 seconds.What does the TV need?
A browser signed in as a user with a shop floor role, such as Operator. Open Shop Floor > Machine Board; it fills the screen.Can the board show one plant only?
Not yet. The board shows every machine of the Entity. The OEE report can be grouped and filtered by plant.Which plan has OEE?
Scale. The shop floor terminal comes with Growth and is part of Scale.Related features
SHOP FLOORThe shop floor terminal: a tablet at each machineA tablet at each machine or station shows its jobs in big tiles. Operators sign in with a PIN or badge, and start and pause jobs. They count good and rejected pieces with a reason, and stop the machine with a reason. Every count goes straight into the order.SHOP FLOORAndon: calls for help and the andon boardAn operator presses Call on the terminal and picks who is needed: a supervisor, maintenance, quality or material. The people of that kind are told at once. The andon board shows every call waiting and being handled, with the minutes it waited and took to fix.PLANNING, QUALITY AND COSTBreakdowns raised from the floor, spares and technician time costedWhen an operator stops a machine at the terminal for a breakdown reason, a repair request opens for that machine at once. The maintenance team is told. The stop time and the repair sit on one record, and the repair is costed in spares and technician time.PLANNING, QUALITY AND COSTPreventive maintenance by days, hours or cyclesEach machine gets maintenance plans that fall due by the calendar, by its running hours or by the pieces it has made. A due plan raises a maintenance request with its checklist and spares, and closing the request costs it and moves the plan on.LINES AND SCHEDULINGAssembly lines: operation bulletins, balancing and hourly outputSet up each line with its stations, and write an operation bulletin per item with the SMV of every step. See the bottleneck and line balance at once. Each day's line plan becomes a production order, and the hourly board fills from the shop floor terminal.PLANNING, QUALITY AND COSTProduction reports: plan against actual, material against BOM, scrap by reasonThree ready reports for the production manager. What was planned and what was made, by item and month. The material planned and used on orders. What was scrapped, by reason. Each opens as a pivot you can turn, filter and export.
See your shop floor on it.
Tell us what you make, how many machines and people you run, and how production is recorded today. We will set up a line with you and run a job on the terminal.