OEE

App Note: IIOT Robot Cell Monitoring with Tend.ai, OPC-UA, Weintek and Tulip

October 15, 2019

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Brian McMorris

How can we reduce waste and become more lean? One way is to identify losses around a robot cell operation. A manager once said “You can never recover lost robot cell time”. Goal: minimize idle robot cell time How do we capture losses? How do we categorize those losses? How do we put that process
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What is OEE and How Does it Fit with Industry 4.0?

November 22, 2017

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Brian McMorris

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is the gold standard for measuring manufacturing productivity. Simply put – it identifies the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive. An OEE score of 100% means you are manufacturing only Good Parts, as fast as possible, with no Stop Time. In the language of OEE that means 100% Quality (only Good Parts), 100% Performance (as fast
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