Your OEE Number Is HidingWhere the Real Losses Are
Most manufacturers know their OEE score. Few can point to the exact machine, shift, or station dragging it down. Sandhed maps availability, performance, and quality data onto your floor plan so you can see where OEE drops and why.
The Problem
Where Things Break Down
OEE is supposed to tell you where to focus. In practice, most facilities calculate a single plant-wide number once a shift or once a day, then argue about what caused the gap. Availability data lives in the PLC. Performance data lives in the MES. Quality data lives in a spreadsheet. Pulling these together takes hours, and by then the shift is over. You end up fixing yesterday's problems instead of today's.
OEE is calculated too late to act on
Most plants calculate OEE at shift end or daily. By the time the number reaches a manager, the root cause is cold. No one remembers which micro-stops added up or which changeover ran long.
Availability, performance, and quality data live in different systems
Downtime logs sit in the CMMS. Cycle times live in the PLC. Scrap counts are in a spreadsheet or quality system. Getting a true OEE picture for one machine means pulling data from three places manually.
No way to compare machines or shifts visually
Your best CNC and your worst CNC show the same green light on the SCADA screen. Without a spatial view, you cannot see that one corner of the floor consistently underperforms or that second shift drops 12% every Tuesday.
Our Approach
What Sandhed Does Differently
Sandhed connects to your PLCs and sensors via OPC UA and MQTT, then maps availability, performance, and quality data onto your 3D floor plan in real time. Each machine shows its current OEE as a color-coded overlay: green for on-target, amber for declining, red for below threshold. Click any machine to see its availability, performance, and quality breakdown. Compare shifts side by side. Spot bottlenecks by looking at the floor plan instead of digging through spreadsheets.
Machine-Level OEE on Your Floor Plan
Every machine displays its current OEE as a color-coded overlay on the 3D floor plan. Green means on target. Amber means declining. Red means below your threshold. Spot the weak spots without opening a report.
Availability, Performance, and Quality Breakdown
Click any machine to see its three OEE components in real time. See exactly whether the loss is coming from unplanned stops, slow cycles, or scrap. Each component shows current value and trend direction.
Shift-by-Shift Comparison
Compare OEE across shifts on the same floor plan view. See which shift runs tighter changeovers, which has more micro-stops, and where the gap between best and worst shift is widest.
Bottleneck Identification Through Color Overlays
Switch to a bottleneck view and the floor plan highlights machines with the lowest OEE in red, creating a visual heat map. Follow the color gradient to find where production flow breaks down.
Quick Assessment
How Exposed Is Your Facility?
OEE Improvement Assessment
Answer 5 questions to get a personalized score and recommendations.
Industry Applications
Built for Your Industry
OEE Improvement for Manufacturing
Track availability, performance, and quality for every CNC, press, and assembly station on your 3D floor plan. See which machines and shifts are pulling your OEE down.
ManufacturingOEE Improvement for Automotive
Track station-level OEE across your assembly line with availability, performance, and quality breakdowns tied to your takt time targets.
AutomotiveExpected Outcomes
Results You Can Measure
Average OEE gain
Typical first-year improvement from visibility alone
Less time assembling OEE data
Reduction in manual data gathering
Time to identify lowest-OEE machine
Glance at the floor plan instead of pulling reports
Setup time
From floor plan to live OEE tracking
Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks. Results vary by facility.
FAQ
Common Questions
Related Solutions
Unplanned Downtime Prevention
Most manufacturers discover downtime after it costs them. Sandhed gives you the visibility to catch equipment issues before they shut down production.
View SolutionCustom Dashboards & KPI Views
Your factory generates thousands of data points every hour. Sandhed puts them on drag-and-drop dashboards tied to your 3D floor plan, so every role sees exactly what they need.
View SolutionQuality Gate Monitoring
Quality gates catch bad parts, but they do not tell you why a station started failing. Sandhed maps pass/fail rates and SPC data to your 3D floor plan so you can trace defect patterns back to the source station in minutes, not days.
View SolutionRelated Resources
How to Improve OEE: The 5 Levers That Actually Move the Number
OEE is the product of availability, performance, and quality. Most plants know their OEE number but can't pinpoint which of the three factors is dragging it down or why. Improving OEE requires decomposing the score, finding hidden losses in each category, and connecting production data to spatial context so you can see where on the floor the problems actually live.
Read answerWhy Does My Production Line Keep Stopping?
Most unplanned stops come from a short list of causes that compound each other. Sensor blind spots, delayed maintenance response, equipment running past rated cycles, power quality events, raw material drift, PLC faults, and shift-change errors account for the majority of lost production time. Fixing them requires data correlation, not more dashboards.
Read answerSee Your OEE Mapped to Your Floor Plan
We will model your actual floor plan and show you how Sandhed tracks OEE per machine in real time. No generic demo.