OEE worked out live, from the signals your machines already have

• Availability: the time a machine ran, out of the time it was meant to run. Closed hours and planned stops are not counted against it.
• Performance: what it made, against what it could have made at its ideal cycle time, or at the rated rate of the product it was running.
• Quality: good parts out of all parts, from a scrap count on the machine or scrap recorded by the operator.

Every figure says which shift it covers and whether that shift is still going, so a number at 10am is never mistaken for the whole day.

Shifts are set to the minute, 06:00 to 14:30 if that is your day shift, with the days they run. OEE, downtime and production are worked out per shift, and closed hours never count as downtime.

Give each product its name and rated rate per hour, and Kealink measures performance against the product that was actually running. Paste the product list straight from a spreadsheet. A count can be turned into kilograms, bags or tonnes by the weight of the product running at the time.

Pick a machine and a date and see the shift as a timeline: every run and every stop, the product made in each run and its rate, with downtime, availability, uptime, amount produced and performance at the top. Go back a day at a time, or download the lot as a spreadsheet.

Set an OEE target per machine and see the result against it. A factory screen shows average OEE across every machine, how many are running and total production for the shift, which is the screen most plants put on the wall.