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OEE optimization through artificial intelligence

Industry 4.0 applications generate large amounts of data. Collecting data is good, analyzing this data is better—and it's best to implement the findings. With oee.ai, we have the hurdle of...

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Read the basics of OEE management here

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) or overall equipment efficiency (OEE) is a key figure for measuring the productivity of plants. The key figure and in particular the necessary accompanying information are not easy to record, but they have...

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Industry 4.0 and lean production

The topic of lean production has been the subject of Industry 4.0 in the technical discussion for some time. A wide range of topics is being discussed: “Lean is achieved through Industry 4.0...

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The IoT platform for OEE improvement

An Internet of Things (IoT) platform provides companies with Industry 4.0 functions on the web without having to develop or operate the applications themselves. Instead, the features are only configured...

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Microsoft Excel is not the right tool for OEE management

Microsoft Excel is an integral tool for flexible analysis of data, which is why it is also widely used in OEE calculation. Good Excel templates for OEE calculation can be downloaded from the Internet...

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Easy, fast: Plug & Play Andon board for OEE

In lean production, an Andon board visualizes current and relevant key figures for employees and managers. This can happen at the point of value creation, but also in offices. As a result, the contact of the...

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User report: OEE increase with oee.ai

oee.ai helps to increase the OEE of systems. The technology is built around the basic idea of maximum operational flexibility. In addition to technology, people are also needed to implement the identified measures. But how...

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Gamifying OEE optimization with Industry 4.0 technology

Gamification is spreading. Playful elements are used in a non-game context. Wikipedia says that “the integration of these playful elements essentially increases the motivation of people...

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Industry 4.0 in practice: OEE and background analysis live and without investment

Industry 4.0 is the current industrial buzzword. One of the key ideas is to increase productivity by analyzing data. Analyze data to improve the productivity of...

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Quick Wins Industry 4.0 from the VDMA

The Association of Mechanical and Plant Manufacturers (VDMA) hosted an event in Munich in March 2018: Quick Wins Industry 4.0. oee.ai was there and “quick” in...

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OEE management from manual to Industry 4.0: The book

OEE management is a powerful method for increasing plant productivity. Despite the fact that the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) indicator has existed since the 1980s, so far...

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Why the OEE right now
Is kissed awake

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is becoming increasingly important in the discussion about plant productivity management. There are four reasons for this that every surgical professional should be aware of. Lean production and...

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OEE anomaly detection through machine learning

Machine data is one of the fastest-growing areas of so-called “big data” in companies — and OEE can be calculated from some of this machine data. The most valuable...

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Voice control for Industry 4.0: Giving OEE a voice

After private households, voice control from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and the like is also conquering industry. Natural language input of data or voice control of commands without a keyboard allows people to...

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A hurdle run to OEE data

Hardware development is a complex task. What applies to established companies such as Apple applies even more to start-ups. When a start-up with little previous experience, a small team and...

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OEE analysis with artificial intelligence

The plant productivity data stream talks, but we humans don't listen. In the future, artificial intelligence will be able to identify the signal in noise, i.e. the deviation from the normal state...

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Increasing plant productivity through shopfloor workflows

Productivity increases are an evergreen in the manufacturing industry. Whether costs should be reduced to increase competitiveness, the required workers are simply not available, or a plant to...

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Artificial intelligence for OEE

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks are important topics for the future development of industrial productivity. There is a lot of discussion at the headline level. In this article, we provide an insight into...

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Rethinking the definition of set-up time in SMED using artificial intelligence

As a rule, set-up times account for a large proportion of plant productivity losses. The Toyota production system dedicates an important chapter to reducing set-up losses using the SMED method. But how...

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OEE improvement through human or artificial intelligence?

In order to increase plant productivity, humans and machines will share work in the form of human and artificial intelligence and capabilities. Where are the tasks of humans, where...

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Strengthen the transfer of artificial intelligence to the economy

Many industrialized nations are pushing for the implementation of artificial intelligence in business — and they are outdoing themselves with funding programs. In terms of GDP from industrial production, Germany stands in...

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If predictive maintenance is the cherry, where is the cake?

Predictive maintenance programs to increase plant productivity are a current fashion trend. However, doubts about this approach are growing. Having plant and process data centrally available is...

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The NanoMes as a modern data hub for Industry 4.0

Minimal, cloud-based MES with services limited to the core are now being developed within the scope of Industry 4.0. These NanoMes fill the gap left by outdated or missing or incomplete MES systems. With her six...

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Federal government covers 100% of the costs of OEE projects

The Federal Ministry of Economics is now funding small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) affected by the corona crisis. In this context, oee.ai has a project package to increase plant productivity in manufacturing companies...

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Are you an OEE naut? 5 dimensions of professional OEE management

Companies must continuously improve their processes or risk falling behind in the competition. As Abrahamson argues, it is “change or fall” [1]. This statement is already 20...

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The state of NRW subsidizes digitization projects with up to 80%

The funding program Mittelstand Innovativ & Digital, or MID for short, of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia supports SMEs in the intelligent development and digitization of products, services and production processes. The MID Digitalization program helps companies...

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Online video course “OEE Management” with certificate available

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a well-known but surprisingly underused indicator for managing manufacturing companies. One of the reasons is that the KPI in detail...

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Manufacturing Intelligence: From .xls to .ai

Despite all the discussion about digitization and Industry 4.0. Production is rich in data but poor in information. It is not uncommon for a perceived minimum of productivity data to be recorded via imprecise handwriting. The potential of a...

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OEE + shop floor management = pot + lid

OEE management measures plant productivity and highlights potential for optimization. Shop floor management is an established management method for integrating employees into an improvement process. The two methods go together like pot...

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Plant connectivity is solved

The implementation of Industry 4.0 projects has many hurdles. However, one problem has been clearly solved: There is a way to establish system connectivity for every initial and target situation. Data in a...

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OEE for small lots — up to lot size 1

OEE is an accepted key figure for high-volume processes, such as filling or packaging processes, and is also common in industries with medium batch sizes of, for example, a few dozen products. The development of...

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How digital OEE and shop floor management intertwine

The OEE is an elementary key figure for evaluating production and optimization potential. Accordingly, the topic of OEE management covers the holistic process from data collection to the definition of measures. That...

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Productivity increase for machinists

The machining process involves expensive systems that an operator wants to make the best possible use of. Plant productivity can be increased both during peak and off-peak hours. In this...

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Easy connectivity with Node-RED in Industrial IoT: oee.ai connector

Node-RED is an open source product in the class of low-code products. Node-RED is easy to use and can be used in a variety of ways. To reduce the effort required to connect systems...

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Identify optimization potential at a glance with the heat map

A heat map is a diagram for the two-dimensional color visualization of data. This visualization is used to provide an intuitive and quick overview of a large amount of data as well as particularly distinctive values...

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The added value of customizable reports

Every modern person has their individual social media feed, whether on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. Netflix suggests movies that you personally want to like. Individuality is the key. As...

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Increase plant productivity with oee.ai — now available in the ADAMOS STORE

Aachen/Darmstadt, 01.02.2022 — oee.ai has been increasing plant productivity in mechanical engineering for a long time, so it is only logical that the app is now convenient and standardized via the</p> ADAMOS STORE,...

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Information transparency is crucial

Today's production is rich in data but often poor in information. Especially when decisions have to be made, it is of paramount importance to have the right information available at the push of a button — regardless...

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Litmus Edge and oee.ai — Delivering the Future of Manufacturing

oee.ai has been increasing plant productivity in various industries for a long time. With the support of Litmus, it is easier than ever to obtain machine data in order to exploit optimization potential with oee.ai. Companies must...

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What is the benchmark in OEE management?

The targeted management of plant productivity is becoming more prominent in the order of priorities of companies. The shift of added value back to Europe, rising energy costs and the ever-declining availability of...

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Precise production planning through precise OEE analysis

Customers expect timely deliveries, factories with good production planning run more efficiently. These are the external and internal factors that enable precise OEE analysis and use of data. How must production planning and OEE analysis...

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The setup matrix for production optimization

A set-up matrix is a powerful tool for detailed optimization of production for recurring batches of similar or identical products. The challenge is to determine the transition periods from a product to...

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The gear wheel for increasing plant productivity

A gear wheel is a visual tool for optimizing the set-up process in manufacturing. It was developed to help manufacturing companies save the time and effort required to convert...

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The best-demonstrated cycle time for optimising the OEE power factor

While the availability and quality factors represent parameters that are relatively easy to measure for the purpose of OEE optimization, the performance factor poses a challenge for many companies. The concept of the best-demonstrated...

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Gamification to increase plant productivity: annotation

Gamification has spread in our lives. A bracelet vibrates when 10,000 steps are taken during the day, the language learning app motivates daily vocabulary training and the car presents an “eco-score” at...

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Next Lean: Lean leadership on the shop floor board with real-time data

The book “The Second Revolution in the Car Industry” was published in 1990 and marks the start of thinking in value creation and waste in the Western world, the start of “lean production.” ..

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Predict the time until the next plant downtime with artificial intelligence

oee.ai's artificial intelligence algorithms analyze plant productivity 24×7 and thus help employees increase plant productivity. From the library of available algorithms, we present the AI algorithm in this article...

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OEE management audit: There is a perfect improvement process

For manufacturing companies that focus their value creation through plants, the analysis and targeted improvement of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a must. In companies of “non-existent”, you find...

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Plant connectivity and plant productivity: Wireless technologies meet OEE

In the future industrial world, plant connectivity plays a central role — it is no longer just a “nice-to-have” but a must for future-oriented companies. The industrial revolution...

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Create a motivating corporate culture with the 'Good News Feed`

In a rapidly changing world of work, oee.ai presents the “Good News Feed,” an innovative solution to increase recognition and motivation by celebrating positive achievements. This article highlights...

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Real-Time Notifications in oee.ai

Employees and managers in today's factories are very often poorly informed or poorly informed about the current status of production or processes and orders. You work until the...

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Efficiency through multilingualism: practical approaches in global production environments

In our networked economy, the exchange of knowledge across language barriers is crucial. oee.ai can make a small but important contribution: It offers the option of background catalogs in several languages...

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Optimizing decision-making: Efficient information filtering in shop floor management

In a business world characterized by a flood of data and time pressure, management is often faced with the challenge of filtering out the most important topics from a variety of topics. It is true that the signal in...

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Increasing efficiency through AI-based background input

Time plays a crucial role in modern industrial manufacturing. Employees are focused on operating machines and systems continuously and efficiently. But productivity losses pose a significant challenge, in particular...

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The power of “streak” in gamification

Gamfication comes in many ways. However, one variant has reached particular popularity — the “Streak”. “Streak” is English and in this context means “series,” “streak,” or “series.” ...

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oee.ai as a headless manufacturing analytics engine

oee.ai can also be used “headless”, so that companies create the frontend themselves in order to provide the user with a uniform user interface even from several, technically different applications...

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The rise of intelligence: How AI is redefining the manufacturing execution system

Artificial intelligence is now regarded as a general-purpose technology, such as electricity or the internal combustion engine. It is here to stay — and it will also change production sustainably. A Forbes...

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Fast data and big data in production: A comparison

In today's business world, data is a key driver of success and innovation. But not all data is the same. The difference between fast data and big data lies above all...

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“Increasing plant productivity through OEE management” published in 2nd edition by Springer Verlag

In the age of Industry 4.0, optimising plant productivity plays a decisive role in the success of manufacturing companies. The book “Increasing plant productivity through OEE management”, published in the 2nd...

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The technology behind the chat — Talk to the systems and get advice

The most important measure in manufacturing is productivity, and generative AI (GenAI) has opened up new opportunities to achieve this. Using this technology, operators and managers can now use...

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Information technology as a competitive advantage for manufacturing companies

A competitive advantage refers to one or more unique characteristics that enable a company to outperform its competitors. A competitive advantage allows a company to add greater value to its...

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Unlocking the future of industrial AI: insights from Jörn Steinbeck

In the latest episode of the Industrial AI podcast, presenter Robert Weber met with Jörn Steinbeck, co-founder of oee.ai, to discuss how generative AI is redesigning manufacturing. ...

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Affordable, flexible and professional system connectivity to increase OEE

The lack of connectivity between industrial systems is one of the major — if not the biggest — hurdles when digitizing manufacturing. The plant park is heterogeneous, the solutions require individuality...

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Generative AI-based structured problem solving in manufacturing

Industrial manufacturing thrives on the expertise of its front-line employees, whose skills and decision-making skills are second to none. But this human dependence comes with challenges, such as the loss of institutional...

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LATC 2019: Prof. Dr. Markus Focke pitches oee.cloud

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Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, on OEE and Data-Driven Manufacturing

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OEE Data Analysis Demo with oee.cloud (English)

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OEE data analysis with oee.cloud (German)

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Markus Focke explains Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

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Timo Bertsch: Development steps towards professional OEE management

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Smart factory for FMCG manufacturers: Digital OEE and shop floor management improve performance

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Basic fault input with your own telephone

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Partnership between Cybus and oee.ai

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Smart Factory for FMCG manufacturers

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Increasing productivity for machinists: Modern optimization approaches for peak and non-productive times

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MPDV Smart Factory Week

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Webinar: Information transparency from shop floor to management (2)

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Webinar: Information transparency from shop floor to management (1)

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Efficiency through transparency: Digitally record OEE and use it optimally in shop floor management

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oee.ai Digital Workshop Hoffmann Group

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oee.ai GoodNewsFeed

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Customer Zentis | How oee.ai complements the MIP Manufacturing Integration Platform ecosystem

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Transparent data, clear measures | Digitalization for FMCG with oee.ai & SFM Systems

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Generative AI for Manufacturing | Introducing Saru as Productivity Companion

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Increasing productivity made easy: Filtration Group relies on oee.ai

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7HoursLean: Increasing OEE with artificial intelligence

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OEE explaination including transfer to the coffee machine

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The “why” and “how” of OEE recording

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