Spreadsheets, sensors, dashboards, and software — what you actually need at each stage, and what can wait.
Most OEE software advice assumes you have an IT department, an integration budget, and a year. If you have three lines and a supervisor with strong opinions, the evaluation looks completely different.
Every plant eventually mounts a big screen over the line. Six weeks later, nobody looks at it. The difference between a dashboard and wallpaper is what you choose to show — and who you design it for.
Somewhere right now a plant is postponing OEE tracking until the sensor project is approved, budgeted, and integrated. The sensors will take a year. The clipboard could start Monday.
Every OEE journey starts with a spreadsheet, and that's fine — ours did too. The trouble isn't that Excel is bad. It's that the moment it starts failing is almost impossible to see from inside.
Tell us a bit about your plant floor and we'll show you EnicSoft OEE running on your own numbers.
