When I was a kid, my dad used to keep a book listing each time that he bought gas and the number of gallons purchased. Also included were the number of miles driven since he had last purchased gas.

Increasing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) was the gist of a February 16 presentation by Barry Lynch, Platform Global Marketing Director of GE Intelligent Platforms, at the Innovation Stage at ...

Accurate real-time data automatically captured from machines creates the foundation for improved OEE and more profitable production. Automating data collection offers manufacturers a reliable way to ...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a four-part series on understanding and implementing overall equipment effectiveness strategy. This series is sponsored by SafetyChain Software. When it comes to ...

In job shops, throughput often lives in the steps between cuts: tooling, offsets, refixturing, programming and training. The March issue features practical ways shops are cutting setup time and ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) continues to gain in popularity as manufacturers seek to quantify plant, manufacturing line, and machine-level performance and find ways each area can be improved ...

OEE stands for “Overall Equipment Effectiveness” and is an important metric for many companies’ initiatives to establish “Operational Excellence.” There are many different definitions for OEE but it ...