OEE Software

Overall Equipment Effectiveness can be provided to you and your management team with productivity tracking through real-time feedback on a production dashboard. FACTIVITY has a variety of dashboards that highlight at the machine level performance, quality and availability on a mobile tablet attached to machines or on customizable giant screens.

FACTIVITY OPC & FACTIVITY MES

FACTIVITY connects directly to machines and captures OEE measurements through a variety of machine monitoring equipment like a PLC and/or PAC controller offered by vendors such as Opto and Moxa. FACTIVITY’s OPC solution is plug and play, ready to capture SCADA level data when the machine starts, when it goes down, when pieces are produced and depending on sensors counts on pieces scrapped.

Machine parameters can be captured through the FACTIVITY MES when interfaced with some additional data acquisition software along with the Machine Monitoring Module. FACTIVITY can then provide SCADA level functionality for unlimited tags from unlimited machine resources along with complete Historian and Recipe Management functionality.

Now you can...

  • See actual rates verses expected rates of production
  • Receive continuous information on yield by machine, part and operator
  • Find the specific and reoccurring cause for downtime and lost production
  • Get an alarm for too much scrap or specific downtime reason

Our best in class MES solution provides all the foundation for improved data collection and data acquisition. Our production software system provides complete Overall Execution Effectiveness ™ by expanding from a machine automation focus to a process and routing bases lean manufacturing set of functionality which includes:

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Frequently Asked Questions

FACTIVITY connects directly to factory floor machines through its OPC (OLE for Process Control) solution — interfacing with PLC and PAC controllers from vendors including Opto and Moxa. The connection is plug-and-play for standard machine configurations, capturing machine start, stop, cycle completion, and piece counts automatically without operator involvement. For machines with additional data acquisition requirements, FACTIVITY's Machine Monitoring Module can capture SCADA-level data — unlimited tags from unlimited machine resources, including complete Historian and Recipe Management functionality.

FACTIVITY tracks the three components of Overall Equipment Effectiveness — Availability (downtime vs. scheduled time), Performance (actual output rate vs. expected rate), and Quality (good parts vs. total parts produced) — and combines them into the composite OEE score. This data is displayed in real time on configurable dashboards at the machine level, on giant screens throughout the plant, and through FACTVIEW browser-based viewers at management desks. Downtime and scrap are captured with reason codes — either automatically from the machine interface or entered manually by the operator — giving managers the specificity needed to identify and address recurring causes rather than just tracking totals.

OEE measurement on its own doesn't improve anything — the value is in identifying specific, recurring causes of lost production and acting on them. FACTIVITY's OEE reporting provides drill-down from the plant-level summary to specific machines, parts, operators, and downtime reason codes, so the analysis can identify exactly where and why production is being lost. Alarm functionality notifies supervisors immediately when scrap exceeds expected yield or when a specific downtime reason occurs, enabling intervention while the issue is still active rather than reviewing it in a weekly report. Multi-plant data warehouse functionality allows manufacturers with multiple facilities to compare OEE performance across plants and identify best practices worth replicating.

Yes. FACTIVITY includes a multi-plant data warehouse that consolidates OEE and production KPI data across multiple facilities, allowing manufacturers to compare performance between plants, benchmark against company standards, and identify which facilities are leading or lagging on key metrics. This is particularly valuable for manufacturers with shared product lines across facilities, where understanding relative performance informs decisions about production allocation, capital investment, and continuous improvement prioritization.

FACTIVITY's OPC solution is designed as plug-and-play for standard machine interfaces — connecting to PLCs and PAC controllers that most modern CNC machines and automated equipment already have. For machines that support standard OPC connectivity, deployment can happen rapidly without machine modifications. For older machines or non-standard equipment, FACTIVITY's team works with customers to identify the appropriate connection method. Operator training for the machine monitoring interface is typically completed within two hours.

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