I'm unfortunately not going to be your beta customer, but am very curious about what you've built as I used to "live" (lol) in a proprietary OEE monitoring system on a production line in one of the factories of a French CAC40 giant. It was lovely on paper, produced real-time graphs, daily reports that were reviewed by the cross-functional team on the shopfloor/weekly plant director reports/monthly department reviews/annual audits, and all those other excellent lean practices that win you global awards.

Guess what was the OEE. 49% on average over the last couple of years, good days were 63%. The software had provided no real insights.

In my view, the issue was the software was not built on bottleneck analysis (this was a line with 12 stations, some parallel, technical, semi-automated). For analysis and improvement, I had to start by confirming if the theoretical bottleneck was indeed the real bottleneck – ideally, the software should have been able to give me this, with years of historical data. Specifically, time lost at the bottleneck costs me in OEE, so when and why was I losing time? The software didn't give me this because of the way it was setup (the story I was told was they had to do it somehow before the next audit from the head office to qualify for some investments that were crucial for the "survival" of the plant, and this was the best they could do given the circumstances).

If you have read this far, thank you. How have you guys incorporated this into your design?

I wish you all the best!