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What is overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)?

In short

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a single score combining machine availability, speed and quality to show how much productive capacity you actually use. Used in manufacturing. AI can calculate OEE live from machine data and pinpoint the biggest losses, so a plant knows whether downtime, slow running or scrap is really holding output back.

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