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OEE displays and monitoring systems for Continuous Improvement of Factory PerformanceOEE displays measure production rate, downtime, total produced and total rejected. They give a real-time indication of your lean manufacturing production line performance to help you achieve continuous improvement. The beauty of a real-time system is that you can respond immediately to any drop in performance before it becomes critical. 
They are available in a wide range of sizes to suit your installation's maximum required viewing distance and can accept data in a format which best suits you, such as pulse counts, barcode scanner, manual input, csv, database query etc. Below is a diagram showing the main components and stages of a simple OEE display system for factory performance monitoring... 
They are modular, so we can combine as many values on the display as you would need. For example, the simplest version could show OEE, but you could additionally show Current Rate, Average rate this shift, total downtime, Quality %, Takt time, Text messages etc. Shown below is an example of an Operator's screen showing real time graph of OEE versus target, with Gantt chart of all stoppages, calls for help, engineer attendance and response times etc... 
How do I calculate OEE?OEE is calculated in the display. You simply connect power and pulse inputs for total made and total rejected. You will also need to tell the display how many items your production line can produce in an hour, when operating at its peak of performance.The pulse signals can come from NPN or PNP sensors, PLC outputs etc. The measured OEE value can be saved to a cloud-based database for viewing on your laptop, PC or phone, thanks to the latest IoT secure technology. Trend graphing allows you to instantly see whether performance is improving or not, and for which KPIs. The three core KPI's we look at when determining OEE are Availability, Speed performance and Quality. OEE = Availability x Speed x Quality
If Availability, Speed and Quality are all 100%, OEE is 100%, because 100% of 100% is 100%. I all are 50%, the OEE is 12.5% because 50% of 50% is 25%, and 50% of 25% is 12.5% OEE can be highly sensitive to small drops in performance in each of the 3 key measurements. For example if your Availability, Speed and Quality were all at 80%, your OEE would drop dramatically to 51% And if your Availability, Speed and Quality were to drop to 50%, your OEE would drop even more dramatically to under 13% So to maintain a high OEE, you must be vigilant to any small drops in all your KPIs, Availability, Speed or Quality. OEE needs to be treated with caution though, as it is not ideal and doesn't suit all processes equally, especially if there is a large mismatch between A P and Q. Ideally A P and Q would have similar values, in a well balanced and defined production system. OEE can provide an unfair overall picture, if one or two of the variable are consistently poor, yet the remaining perform well. The reason for this is that the availability may be perfect, but speed and quality very poor, which penalises the apparent rating for availability, and may not give enough focus on the real problem areas, when only OEE is viewed.. Similarly, a very high speed, above 100% of rated operation, can give rise to lower quality than a lower speed, due to operator errors, machine jams etc, and the overall profit could be less than for the same OEE at a lower speed. Examples of a basic OEE reportBasic OEE Analysis this job=====================Line 3 ===================== 74 = job id ===================== 50025 = Job chosen Kevin Smith = Person Responsible 130/hr = target rate 1 = items per pulse 496 = total pulses this period 0 = manual additions this period 3 = manual subtractions this period 496 = total items made this period excluding manually entered items 493 = total items made this period including manually entered items, but excluding rejects 662 = Target of how many should have been made this period Fri 21st Jun 2019, 07:04:37 = Job chosen When Fri 21st Jun 2019, 12:10:17 = Job completed When 2.872 = total stoppage time in hours 8 = total stoppage occurrences 5.094 hours = elapsed time this job 0.744 Performance this job 0.436 Availability this job 0.994 Quality this job 32.3% OEE this job ===================== Basic shift summary, all jobs9hrs = Elapsed time this whole period (including changeovers)493 = grand total items made good 3 = Grand total Rejects 662 = Grand total target quantity 5.094hrs = Grand total elapsed job time 0.745 = performance overall 0.247 = availability overall 0.994 = quality overall 18.3% OEE Overall We also collect the following useful information:
An example of an operator screen we designed for use on an Android or iPhone device. 
 OEE Display system information leaflet
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