Global 500 Industrial Achieves High OEE with Wonderware MES

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Along with equipment uptime, OEE is a measure of quality x available capacity x throughput--it's a measure that may vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but it's an indication of the efficiency and effectiveness of your plant maintenance and quality practices.

This global 500 industrial manufacturer turned to an OEE solution from Wonderware in order to achieve improvements of over 20%--a very significant measure that directly impacts profitability, capacity, and throughput of a plant.

Global 500 Industrial Manufacturer Gains Equipment Uptime Using Wonderware MES

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Equipment uptime management is a constant process of refinement and understanding of the dynamics behind stoppages.  Oftentimes paper-based systems are used to capture and manage downtime events.  However, not at this Fortune 500 Industrial--they use Wonderware MES in order to manage their downtime events, and achieved more than 20% improvement as a result!

Customers Improve OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) with Wonderware

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OEE--Overall Equipment Effectiveness--is a measurement of throughput, availability, and quality.  One solution to OEE is Wonderware Performance.  It gathers real time data from equipment and uses a dashboard to show status and efficiencies.

Customers Report Improved Equipment Performance Using Wonderware MES

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Using OEE to Drive Operational Improvements for Food Processors

On February 20, Invensys and partner Callisto presented an overview with case studies on why OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is useful when establishing a continuous improvement culture.

 

Using examples from customers Campbell Soup and  Mars, Mike Grasley from Callisto discussed why OEE, its fit into DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve), and challenges to implementation of OEE for Continuous Improvement.  Mike finished the presentation with a tangible example, implementing OEE on a packaging line.

 

For more information, or to view the archived webinar, please visit http://www.automationworld.com/using-oee-drive-operational-improvements-food-processing

Why You Should Consider Overall Equipment Effectiveness

LNS Research just published a benchmark study of the efficacy of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for discrete manufacturing companies. Without giving away the study, Industrial Equipment manufacturers were the strongest users (and beneficiaries) of OEE practices.  Read the report summary by clicking the link below:

 http://blog.lnsresearch.com/blog/bid/155988/Overall-Equipment-Effectiveness-Benchmark-Data-by-Industry

So what is OEE?

Using MES in Your Centerlining Efforts

Centerlining, in simple terms, matrixes financial, quality, and product dimensions which can be measured and managed.  The simplest example of Centerlining would be a Continuous Improvement project around quality.  Understanding what affects quality (such as purity of ingredients, length of time processing, specific ways of material handling) makes it easier to establish the “norm” and thus manage the extent that you’ll accept outlier behavior.

So how does #MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and other operations management solutions help with Centerlining?