On the road to green machines... How OEMs can improve the energy efficiency of machines

The manufacturing industry (consumer goods and life sciences) tries to manage production through a key methodology: OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), and the key principal is tracking metrics from machines/ lines between:

• Availability: measures productivity losses from downtime - events which entirely stop production,
• Performance: measures losses from slow production cycles - processes not working at maximum speed, and
• Quality: measures losses from production not achieving established quality levels.