Deploying real-time data collection for measuring overall equipment efficiency (OEE) as a productivity tool in manufacturing

制造业依赖于机器效率和生产力，以确保可持续和盈利的运营。在业务过程中，对整体设备效率（OEE）进行生产率审计是很常见的。然而，这一评估往往是很晚才报告，只能用于改善未来的行动，如果有的话。研究表明，如果能更快地获取这些信息，OEE可以得到改善。即使是5%的生产率提高也可能对加拿大的GDP产生数十亿美元的影响。 该项目将通过测试一种新型实时技术解决方案来帮助弥合这一差距，该解决方案可与任何设备配合使用，提供关键性能指标的实时数据，并帮助机器操作员即时评估和改进制造过程。 范肖学院的应用科学与技术学院将与行业合作伙伴FreePoint Technologies Inc.一家位于安大略伦敦的测量和生产力解决方案公司，专门从事制造业和工业部门的软件即服务（SaaS）和利基技术。 该项目将通过FreePoints新技术收集和传递的信息，监控机器性能以及向设备操作员提供真实的关键性能数据的影响。该项目将在安大略南部的两个制造公司测试地点进行。这项研究将导致进一步开发一个完全优化的系统，使机器操作员能够获得提高机器效率所需的实时可操作信息。 该项目将通过帮助识别实时数据和员工参与作为流程生产力战略的未开发潜力，使制造业受益。这项新技术的商业化将导致在当地社区创造就业机会，并为安大略和加拿大的制造商提供竞争优势，并通过吸引熟练的年轻工人进入一个正在重新定义自己的传统部门来解决加拿大劳动力短缺问题。

The manufacturing industry depends on machine efficiency and productivity in order to ensure sustainable and profitable operations. In the course of business, it is common to undertake a productivity audit of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). However, this evaluation is often reported much later, and can only be used to improve future operations, if at all. Studies have shown that OEE can be improved if that information is accessed sooner. Even a 5% productivity improvement could represent billions of dollars to Canadas GDP. This project will help to bridge that gap through the testing of a novel real-time technology solution that functions with any equipment, provides real-time data on key performance indicators, and machine operators to instantly assess and improve the manufacturing process. Fanshawe College's School of Applied Science and Technology will undertake this applied research with industry partner FreePoint Technologies Inc., a measurement and productivity solutions company based in London, Ontario that specializes in software as a service (SaaS) and niche technology for the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The project will monitor machine performance and the impact of making key performance data available in real time to equipment operators, through information gathered and relayed by FreePoints novel technology. The project will be undertaken at two manufacturing company test locations in Southern Ontario. This research will lead to further development of a fully optimized system that allows machine operators access to the real-time actionable information necessary to improve the efficiency of the machines. This project will benefit the manufacturing industry by helping to identify the untapped potential of real-time data and employee engagement as a process productivity strategy. Commercialization of this new technology will lead to job creation in the local community and provide Ontario and Canadian manufacturers with a competitive edge and an advantage in dealing with the Canadian labour shortage by attracting skilled young workers to a traditional sector that is redefining itself with the integration of leading-edge technology.