From the production line to business systems: implementation steps, design decisions and commissioning checks.
10 articles · OEE & production · Open the topic hub →
Definitions, formulas and a worked example for MTBF and MTTR, plus the pitfalls: what counts as a failure, what counts as repair time and why averages hide long outages.
· 4 min
Follow one 8-hour shift through the OEE formula: availability, performance, quality and a minute-by-minute loss waterfall you can reproduce in the free calculator.
· 4 min
Choose a useful meter boundary, separate demand from consumption and connect the result to a production decision.
· 2 min
Commission an OEE data path by agreeing on time boundaries, ideal cycle time and the meaning of a good part.
· 2 min
A practical guide to energy monitoring in manufacturing: what to meter, how to connect meters to dashboards, and how to use demand data to find savings and prove them.
· 5 min
Alarm floods erode operator trust. A structured alarm management lifecycle based on ISA-18.2 turns a noisy alarm system into one operators can act on.
· 5 min
Grafana is not only for DevOps. Paired with a time-series database and industrial data connectors, it is a flexible, cost-effective option for manufacturing dashboards.
· 5 min
A well-designed vibration monitoring pipeline can reveal bearing wear, misalignment and imbalance before they become failures. This is how the pipeline fits together, from sensor to work order.
· 4 min
Measuring OEE is only the start. A structured breakdown of the six losses behind the number and how to diagnose which one is holding your line back.
· 4 min
How retrieval-augmented generation can help engineers search process data, alarms, work orders and operator notes during root cause analysis, and the guardrails that keep it trustworthy.
· 3 minLet’s look at your machine, your data flow or your production goal together. Describe your situation in a few sentences and the ASP Dijital team will reply by email.
