At Minitab, we aim to help our customers achieve operational excellence. Doing so requires helping them with their challenges, not simply offering our solutions. When we heard customers repeatedly asking us to help them improve their Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), we wanted to help. The challenge wasn’t about Minitab’s ability to help analyze the data, it was about actually getting the data to analyze. With Scytec’s DataXchange, Minitab now offers customers a solution to measure OEE and harness the power of that data to improve it as well.
Unlike most modern OEE platforms, Scytec DataXchange offers flexibility and extensibility that Minitab customers desire. DataXchange is the only real-time manufacturing modern platform that can collect data from both standard protocols like MTConnect, OPC UA, Modbus TCP and proprietary protocols from controls like FANUC, Haas, Heidenhain, Mazak, OKUMA, Siemens and more. These protocols enable more supplemental data to be collected to gain richer insights and enable more valuable analyses. Furthermore, DataXchange is the only solution available on the cloud and on-premise to support different business environments. Combine these features with easy-to-understand, configurable dashboards and DataXchange is the perfect compliment to Minitab’s current solutions portfolio.
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is typically calculated with the formula: OEE = Availability x Performance x Quality. While many software packages claim to provide OEE, the quality aspect is based on manual entry. This creates multiple opportunities to get OEE wrong. For one, if the data being collected is based on scrap created instantly, then it is likely under counting defects that show up at the quality lab. If, in fact, it is correctly dependent on information gathered from the quality lab, the manual process leads to delays, errors or most likely human forgetfulness. Only Minitab offers automated data collection from both the manufacturing and measurement side of the factory, enabling quality professionals to get the actual OEE – and get it faster. With Minitab’s solutions working together practitioners will be able to get instant – and real – OEE.