Industry 4.0
OEE monitoring with IoT sensors: measure and improve machine effectiveness
See exactly how your machines, people and processes perform. Add wired or wireless sensors, capture real-time data and get a bird’s-eye view of your production, so you can find losses and raise your OEE.
What is OEE?
OEE, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, is the standard metric for measuring manufacturing productivity and analysing equipment performance. It also shows the share of manufacturing time that actually results in products you can deliver.
OEE evaluates how efficiently your machines, workforce and processes are used. By improving it, you raise quality and increase efficiency on your production lines, which boosts the capacity of the shop floor.
Why OEE matters
Three things every production industry depends on.
Machine utilisation
How much of the available time your machines actually run.
Product quality
How many of the products you make are good the first time.
Performance
How fast machines and operators work compared with what is possible.
Improving OEE
A higher OEE means the shop floor produces more shippable products at a lower cost per unit, which helps both short-term and long-term production efficiency. An OEE of 85 percent is generally considered exceptional, while many facilities average around 40 percent and need to focus on continuous improvement.
Improving OEE can involve adding overtime, buying new equipment, outsourcing production or opening a new facility, but the first step is to see where time is lost today. Using the OEE metric daily, monthly and yearly has great potential to raise productivity and eliminate waste.
How Sensor-Online helps
Easy and affordable OEE monitoring on a flexible, scalable IoT platform.
Wired and wireless sensors
Add sensors to measure productivity in your process and capture real-time data for a bird’s-eye view of production.
Machine runtime
Know the exact runtime of any machine in any factory, with full visibility per shift: uptime, downtime, pulse counts and machine efficiency.
Production KPIs
Connect to any machine, collect data and monitor your production KPIs.
Reports
Generate reports on production, runtime and losses.
Alarms
Trigger alarms when something deviates, so problems are found in time instead of through costly repairs.
Preventive action and downtime log
Take preventive action and log machine downtime, so production managers can adjust and cut losses.
From machine to improvement
A simple path to a higher OEE.
Add sensors
Wired or wireless sensors on machines and lines.
Capture data
Runtime, pulse counts and states arrive in real time.
See OEE
Dashboards show uptime, downtime and efficiency per shift.
Act
Alarms and reports point to the losses worth fixing first.
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Read more →Frequently asked questions
What is OEE?
Overall Equipment Effectiveness, the standard metric for manufacturing productivity. It combines machine utilisation, product quality and performance into one figure.
What do I need to measure OEE with Sensor-Online?
Wired or wireless sensors on your machines to capture runtime, pulse counts and states, and the Sensor-Online platform to show and report the results.
Can I see downtime per shift?
Yes. You get full visibility per shift, including uptime, downtime, pulse counts and machine efficiency.
Can I get alarms when a machine stops?
Yes. Set alarm rules and get alerts by e-mail, SMS, Telegram, webhook or MQTT, and log the downtime.
Can it connect to existing machines and PLCs?
Yes. Connect to any machine, and use Modbus, OPC UA or MQTT to bring data from PLCs and dataloggers into the platform.
Want to raise your OEE? Talk to an engineer.
Tell us about your machines and lines, and we will suggest sensors and a first step.