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 machine monitoring system.  Let’s use a performance issue as...

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 brings many new features including a new OEE report,...

The DataXchange 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 real-time MTConnect data viewer.  There  were also some changes to the OEE real-time...

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.

Our August release brings many new exciting and long awaited features.  New functionality includes a shop floor layout view which provides real time status on an overlay of a shop floor layout.  New charts include an OEE Summary chart showing availability, performance, quality and OEE for each piece of equipment along with targets for each metric.  New equipment status...

The April release of DataXchange was primarily a maintenance release and added quite a few new capabilities to the expression logic ability as well as putting functionality in place for flexible OEE reporting. The API for programmatically pulling data from the database has been enhanced, and a few minor bugs were also fixed.