Automating Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Analysis

Henny Hampton, Associate Director – Data & Digital Manufacturing Operations, Merck

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is the industry leading metric for quantifying manufacturing productivity. In 2021, Merck began a rollout plan to leverage Seeq as their OEE solution at their Carlow site to automate their manual, excel-based processes for capturing and analyzing production losses. Merck leverages automated OEE calculations in Seeq on top of PI and PAS-X, along with an operator interface for categorizing downtimes in Seeq Data Lab, dashboards in Seeq Organizer, and integration with PowerBI for historical analysis. By standardizing and automating OEE, Merck can optimize productivity and throughput across its manufacturing network.