Articles & News on Overall Equipment Effectiveness

LLumin and eschbach Provide Team Communications Integrated with Enterprise Asset Management, Plant Maintenance

  • March 12, 2024
  • News

 LLumin and eschbach announce their partnership to deliver the first rules-based, action-triggering, bi-directional communicating CMMS solution.

Four Software Solutions for Product Quality in Manufacturing

  • by Roman Davydov
  • March 6, 2024
  • Feature

Let's look at four types of tech solutions that can help manufacturers drive product quality and enhance customer satisfaction.

Advanced Data Analytics as an Enabler for OEE Improvement

  • by Fiona Guinee
  • March 1, 2024
  • Feature

OEE is a useful metric for driving process optimization, but combining it with advanced analytics solutions is essential in today’s competitive industrial manufacturing environments to provide the most operational and business value.

How Industrial Panel PCs Stand Up Against Four Key Environmental Elements

  • February 28, 2024
  • Feature

Rugged industrial PC panels such as the SIO and VIO series are designed to stand up against the four main elements in the environment.

Enhancing Machinery Performance in the Evolving Manufacturing Landscape

  • by Chris Johnson
  • December 13, 2023
  • Feature

Manufacturers cannot afford to overlook the role of specialized lubricants—especially as, as outlined in Aptean’s report, they seek to diversify to attract new customers and suppliers.

OEM Hacks for Mitigating Labor Shortages, Lowering Costs and Accelerating Time to Market

  • by Rob Ruber
  • July 27, 2023
  • Feature

To succeed in an age of continuous disruption and a shrinking workforce, organizations need to use data to automate optimization.

Automation Upgrades Extend Equipment Life

  • by Scott Martin
  • May 1, 2023
  • Opinion

With the right PLC and HMI digital platforms, systems integrators can support their clients so they can keep legacy equipment operating for many years.

New Study Describes Convolutional Neural Network Framework to Predict Remaining Useful Life in Machines

  • November 3, 2022
  • News

To ensure the stability of industrial equipment and avoid unnecessary downtime, it is important to gauge a machine's remaining useful life (RUL) accurately.

Embrace the Edge to Avoid Unscheduled Downtime

  • by Johan Jonzon
  • May 10, 2022
  • Feature

Because unscheduled downtime is far more costly than planned downtime, it’s important that manufacturers have real-time information about their equipment and processes to avoid unexpected faults and failures. Here Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of edge analytics platform developer Crosser, explains how edge analytics provides instantaneous data to prevent unscheduled downtime.

Plex Systems Acquires Kors Engineering To Deliver Manufacturing Process Automation

  • March 1, 2021
  • News

The combined solution expands smart manufacturing with first-mile plant and machine connectivity.