Imagine driving a car where the dashboard reports yesterday’s speed and distance covered. It sounds bizarre yet that’s how many Operations and Production Managers run their factories. They know output and OEE numbers for the previous day, but that’s of little help in maximizing performance today. What they need are…
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a great metric and can provide a lot of value, but OEE has shortcomings and limitations that can be addressed by a modern monitoring system. OEE shouldn’t be avoided but diving directly into OEE is not always the best solution to maximize value from a shop floor…
First of all, all of us at Scytec would like to wish everyone a happy holidays! It has been our passion to see you improve, and a pleasure helping you reach your goals, and we look forward to working with you in the new year. Our final update of 2017…
The Scytec DataXchange machine monitoring platform holiday update is primarily a maintenance release updating many of the core components with quite a few minor features. Functionality was added to auto map to MTConnect machines as well as adding functionality relating to MTConnect Conditions (also known as machine alarms) and the…
Our fall update brings some new functionality to DataXchange including a new MTConnect Data Viewer, OEE views in the RTV dashboard, and operation time chart. There were some speed improvements relating to ideal times for OEE along with an Excel export for operation times.
