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More and more packaged goods companies are turning to the performance indicator known as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to wring more production out of existing packaging equipment.

More and more packaged goods companies are turning to the performance indicator known as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to wring more production out of existing packaging equipment. Contributing editor Greg Farnum filed a story recently in Automation World that nicely captured a number of useful insights into this machine performance issue.

Here are a few highlights:

• Todd Smith, FactoryTalk metrics product manager at Rockwell Automation: “OEE is a simple performance indicator to which all managers can relate. Because it shows a machine’s actual performance compared to its theoretical maximum, OEE can be applied to accurately compare any machine or any line, in any industry, anywhere in the world.”

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