Common OEE and Productivity Challenges on the Shop Floor
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) measures how much of your planned production time is truly productive. It is calculated as Availability ÃÂ Performance ÃÂ Quality. OEE in Keep Wisely is a module inside its CMMS/ EAM platform that monitors these three factors in real time, shows live production insights on dashboards, manages OEE configurations and master data centrally, and generates reports that pinpoint productivity losses.
Keep Wisely connects OEE with maintenance, so every loss you measure can be traced to a machine, a cause, and an action.
Keep Wisely turns raw production data into clear improvement actions in four simple steps.
Set up equipment, shifts, targets, and loss categories as central master data.
Record run time, stoppages, output counts, and rejects for each machine as production happens.
View availability, performance, quality, and overall OEE in real time on live dashboards.
Use detailed reports to find the biggest losses and plan corrective actions.
Keep Wisely OEE software shows exactly where production capacity is lost and helps you win it back. Here is what your teams gain:
Finding and fixing your biggest losses raises output from the machines you already own, without new capital spend.
Availability data highlights recurring stoppages, so maintenance teams can prevent them instead of reacting to them.
Tracking rejects alongside speed and uptime shows where quality losses start and how much they cost.
Live dashboards let supervisors act during the shift instead of reviewing problems after it ends.
Central configuration and master data make OEE comparable across machines, lines, and plants.
Manufacturing, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverage, Packaging, Plastics, Textiles, Electronics, Metals, Paper & Printing.
OEE, or Overall Equipment Effectiveness, shows how much planned production time is truly productive. It is calculated by multiplying Availability, Performance, and Quality. For example, 90% availability, 95% performance, and 99% quality give an OEE of about 84.6%.
An OEE of 85% is widely considered world-class for discrete manufacturing, while many plants operate closer to 60%. The most useful target is steady improvement on your own baseline, which Keep Wisely tracks through live dashboards and reports.
The six big losses are equipment failures, setup and adjustments, idling and minor stops, reduced speed, process defects, and reduced yield at startup. They fall under availability, performance, and quality losses, and Keep Wisely OEE reports help you see where your losses come from.
Yes. Keep Wisely monitors availability, performance, and quality in real time and displays live OEE on dashboards, so supervisors can respond during the shift instead of waiting for end-of-day reports.
OEE availability losses point directly to breakdowns and stoppages. Because OEE sits inside Keep Wisely CMMS, teams can connect those losses to maintenance history and plan preventive work on the machines that lose the most time.