partners. The Overall Equipment Effectiveness [OEE] metric is now table stakes in the manufac- turing business,” he said. “OEE equals availability multiplied by quality multiplied by performance. The ability to demonstrate OEE as well as a process to constantly improve plant effi ciency is the basis of coveted trusted-supplier relationships.” OEE is an ideal, industry-accepted metric, McPhail added. “An OEE of 80% or more is achievable by most manufacturing industry shop fl oors and the ‘money people’ understand this, yet the majority of shop fl oors can’t produce this measurement on any kind of consistent basis. “I wish I could say that clipboard data gathering and
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spread-sheet analysis was not as prevalent as it was, but that’s the number one ‘app’ out there right now,” McPhail said. “A shocking number of manufacturing CEOs tell me their major challenge is being told one thing about plant op- erations and seeing something completely different on their
income statements. The typical clipboard and spreadsheet approach to capturing OEE, when it is captured at all, delays the time CEOs can get insight as to what is actually happen- ing on the plant fl oor.” Taking the MTConnect route to shop-fl oor monitor- ing has many advantages. As McPhail noted, MTConnect enables manufacturing equipment to provide data in a single structured XML format rather than an obstructive array of proprietary formats. With uniform data available from both
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