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.

Can you be a world-class manufacturing operation without a world-class focus on equipment reliability and performance? It hardly seems so, given the wealth of risks that accompanies poor or missed ...

OEE is essentially the ratio of Fully Productive Time to Planned Production Time. In practice, however, OEE is calculated as the product of its three contributing factors: Mr DMA Kulasooriya OEE = ...