Last week a colleague sent me a link to a new white paper that you should take a look at. It is published by SAP and titled “Reaping the benefits of next generation dashboards.” You can download your own copy from The Dashboard Spy. The white paper...
Several years ago I started practicing what I preach, at least when it comes to making better use of data in my business. What did I do that was so radical? I started using control charts to track my key business metrics. Imagine that! We set up a simple data entry...
Since writing the series of posts about calculating OEE, I’ve been thinking about how you can best use OEE data to drive improvements in throughput and profitability. Recently I showed this OEE Dashboard to a customer. He said to me, “Evan, this is exactly...
Industry Week magazine did a great cover story on OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) in the February Issue. A couple of key take-aways: Adapt OEE to your business situation Use the OEE data to drill in and drive improvements Don’t optimize OEE at the expense...
We’ve been getting some good press recently for some work we’ve been doing with a well know foods company. This project implemented a real-time Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) dashboard so they could collect and report on Key Process Indicators...
