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Latest case studyEissmann Automotive, Pell City: from 59% to 75% OEE — and from three shifts to two
A Tier-1 automotive interiors plant in Alabama connected its critical machines with its own engineering team. Eight months later: 23% more parts per day, 63% less overtime, 68% fewer defects — and a managing director who calls it the best investment of his career.
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Article4 Things to Monitor if You Want to Boost Productivity in Your Factory
Four things to monitor if you want to boost productivity: people, equipment, processes and maintenance — with measured numbers.
ArticleWhat Is A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) And Should My Factory Get One?
What a Manufacturing Execution System is, what it does for a plant, and how to decide whether yours needs one.
ArticleUnclog the Bottlenecks for Maximum Productivity
Every plant has a bottleneck. Finding it is the hard part — machine data makes it obvious.
ArticleHow to Use Data to Reduce the Time it Takes to Report and Fix Machine Breakdowns
How machine data shortens the time between a breakdown, the report and the fix — a walk through a Monday morning.
ArticlePredictive Maintenance: Anticipate Problems and Launch Solutions
Predictive maintenance in plain words: let the machine tell you before it breaks, and fix small problems while they are small.
ArticleData: The Answer to Downtime on the Factory Floor?
Downtime is the largest source of lost production time — and most plants cannot quantify it. Machine data changes that.
ArticleIf You Are Doing These Things For Your OEE, Then You Are On Track
If you are doing these things with your OEE score, you are on track — a practical checklist for turning the number into wins.
ArticleOverall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): Does My Factory Really Need to Gather More Data?
Does your factory really need to gather more data for OEE? Only if it comes from the machine and someone acts on it.
ArticleLittle Known Ways to Improve your Overall Equipment Effectiveness
What OEE actually measures, why 85% is the number to aim for, and the losses that hide between planned and productive time.
Article7 Useful Tips from Experts in Improving Your OEE
Seven practical ways to improve OEE — prioritise the machines that matter, measure changeovers, stop guessing.
ArticleHow OEE is measured from the machine’s own signals — no PLC, no IT.
Why the end-of-shift sheet and the machine disagree, what an electrical signal can and cannot tell you, and which number actually changes behaviour on the floor.
Case studyEissmann Automotive, Pell City: from 59% to 75% OEE — and from three shifts to two
A Tier-1 automotive interiors plant in Alabama connected its critical machines with its own engineering team. Eight months later: 23% more parts per day, 63% less overtime, 68% fewer defects — and a managing director who calls it the best investment of his career.
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