Professional blog
Short reads on industrial optimisation and data collection
Practical notes from the production floor: what is worth measuring, how a machine signal becomes a report, and where production time gets lost.
OEE
What is worth measuring on a production line? The three parts of OEE
OEE is not a single number but the product of three ratios. Keeping that in mind tells you where it is worth intervening.
October 12, 2026 3 min read
Data collection
Recording downtime reasons: where most of the data gets lost
Almost every system records that a line stopped. Far fewer record why. Yet improving anything needs the ranking of causes.
October 1, 2026 3 min read
Integration
From PLC to database: what to watch for in the integration
Data collection does not start with the report but with the cleanliness of the machine signal. Five points that save later rework.
September 22, 2026 4 min read