OEE Improvement for Automotive
Track station-level OEE across your assembly line with availability, performance, and quality breakdowns tied to your takt time targets.
Where Things Break Down
Station OEE drops are invisible until takt is missed
An assembly station losing 3% performance per hour does not trigger an alarm. But after 4 hours, it is behind takt and the entire line feels it. You need to see the trend before the threshold breaks.
Quality gate rejects do not link back to the station that caused them
A reject at the end-of-line quality gate means something went wrong upstream. Finding which station, which parameter, and which shift takes investigation that delays corrective action.
Line balancing decisions rely on stale data
Rebalancing work content across stations requires knowing actual cycle times and OEE per station. If that data is a week old, you are balancing against a snapshot that no longer reflects reality.
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.
Results You Can Measure
Common Questions
Sandhed pulls availability data from machine state changes (running, idle, stopped), performance data from cycle time readings against your target cycle times, and quality data from reject/scrap counts. These come in through OPC UA, MQTT, or the Telemetry REST API. You set the target values per machine, and Sandhed calculates OEE continuously rather than once per shift.
Yes. Every machine on your floor plan has its own OEE score displayed as a color-coded overlay. You can also group machines by line, cell, or area and see aggregated OEE for each group. The floor plan view makes it obvious which machines or areas are pulling the plant number down.
You configure your shift schedule in the platform, and Sandhed segments OEE data by shift automatically. The comparison view lets you look at the same machines across different shifts to spot patterns. Planned downtime between shifts is excluded from availability calculations.
OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP, and a REST API for custom integrations. This covers most modern PLCs and CNC controllers. For older equipment without digital interfaces, you can add IoT sensors for basic state detection (running vs. stopped) and count outputs.
Most facilities identify their top 3 OEE loss sources within the first week, because the floor plan view makes bottlenecks obvious. The industry benchmark for visibility-driven OEE improvement is 5-15% in the first year, with the largest gains coming from reducing unplanned stops and shortening changeovers.
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 Solution →Custom 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 Solution →Quality 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 Solution →See 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.