Manufacturing today is becoming steadily more competitive, and manufacturing businesses are always looking to improve the productivity — and the profitability — of their operations. As such, they must ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and lean manufacturing have won many converts. These two disciplines are frequently linked because they provide a systematic way to design manufacturing processes ...

Businesses that manufacture goods often need to calculate rates and efficiencies that tell them whether things are going well. This calculation is relatively straightforward for companies that produce ...

Welcome to Take Five with Automation World. I’m David Greenfield, Director of Content, and today we’re going to explain why the overall equipment effectiveness metric, typically referred to as OEE, ...

The courses offered in this catalog are a curated collection of learning materials that provide an overview of Industry 4.0. It is designed to provide resources that businesses can use to understand ...

So, why will your project be any different? How will you ensure your OEE project delivers maximum ROI? While justifying investment in digital technology to measure production performance (TEEP/OEE) ...

Traditional OEE often masks micro-level inefficiencies that accumulate into major production losses. Micro OEE (mOEE) ...

Paying attention to manufacturing costs is a necessity, no matter the size of your business, but for smaller enterprises that have lower cash reserves, carefully monitoring the production expenses is ...