What is OEE and what is it used for?Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is defined as a metric used in lean manufacturing to monitor, evaluate, and improve the effectiveness of a production process. It is a key performance indicator for any production plant, workshop, etc. It is expressed in percentage. Since the primary purpose of OEE is Read more

About Danfoss Danfoss, an industry-leading global manufacturer of hydraulic, climate, and power solutions has been one of Europe’s most notable industrial manufacturers for nearly a century. With 95 manufacturing facilities worldwide and more than 40,000 employees, Danfoss continuously seeks to innovate and optimize their manufacturing processes. Challenges and decision making Danfoss recognized the 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, Read more

Blackbird is joining the most prominent industry trade fair in Europe – Hanover Messe 2022, onsite in Hanover, Germany, from 30 May to 3 June.
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Many of their assembly stations are manual. The production result is reported on paper and only available after one batch is finished or at the end of a shift. Data that falls between these times, such as cycle time, downtime, etc., are almost impossible to retrieve on manual paper-based systems.
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The Andon function has been redesigned to streamline each element of functionality. It was requested by one of our customers in the pharmaceutical industry who required maintenance tasks to be integrated into the Blackbird system.
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