What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is defined as a metric, expressed in percentage, used in lean manufacturing to measure the utilization rate of machinery and equipment. It is used during continuous improvement, to identify which areas need attention. Despite seeming complex, the OEE indicator is easy to calculate when you count with Read more
Blackbird offers one standard, cloud-based solution constantly updated with relevant features developed to meet the needs of our most demanding industry partners. Designed for maximum ease-of-use, Blackbird prioritizes an interactive and intuitive user experience, while also providing a complex framework that lets its users view their data as granularly or broadly as they need. Blackbird’s Read more
How are you calculating scrap? Are you still relying on your operators to manually count individual units scrapped? Are you waiting until a batch is complete before you subtract total quantity used from what was actually produced? Scrap count is a very important metric when it comes to calculating OEE, which is why so many Read more
How can digitalization help your organization ensure production quality? Several of our customers have found that using the Control Recipe function to streamline the quality compliance process makes it more efficient and more accurate.Søren Skamris Jeppesen, LEAN Production & Projects Specialist for Swedish Match, a multinational company producing smokeless tobacco and nicotine free products, shared Read more