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The Major Mistakes to Avoid When Putting Together Your Manufacturing KPI Dashboard

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness, otherwise known as OEE for short, is all about continuously measuring availability, performance, and quality. The closer you can get to a 100% OEE score, the closer you are towards your goal of manufacturing high quality products as quickly as you can with little to no stop time to speak of. In an effort to continually improve and increase that OEE score, many businesses turn to manufacturing KPI dashboards to put actionable data at their fingertips. But you must understand that this technique is not a silver bullet - it is very possible to get wrong, especially if you make a number of common mistakes along the way. You're Tracking the Wrong KPIs By far, the biggest mistake that you should avoid when it comes to OEE tracking  and putting together a manufacturing KPI dashboard involves paying attention to the wrong KPIs to begin with. In no uncertain terms, not all manufacturing organizations are created in the same way. The metrics that matter

Automation and Visualization: The Cornerstones of OEE Tracking Success

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness, otherwise known as OEE for short, is all about one simple concept: understanding the overall productivity of your manufacturing operations. It does this by taking a look at three core qualities that are totally industry agnostic: availability, quality, and performance. The higher your OEE score, the better you're doing - which is always the desired end result. Yet at the same time, many people can get caught up in the "math" of it all and assume that OEE is a lot more complicated than it really is. Yes, the data being used to help calculate this score and illustrate where things can be improved is sophisticated - but automation and visualization in particular still make this all so easy that virtually anyone can do it. Real-Time Insights Create Real-Time Progress When you have the right OEE tracking   software like Thrive at your side, you have more than just a way to ingest historical data and calculate a rudimentary OEE score. Yo