ForgeMachine now calculates OEE automatically from your existing cycle data

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the gold standard metric for measuring manufacturing productivity, but setting it up has always been painful. Most shops either skip it entirely or maintain a spreadsheet that's perpetually two weeks out of date. Starting today, ForgeMachine handles it automatically.

What changed

ForgeMachine has always captured cycle times, downtime event codes, and part counts from your machine feed. The new OEE engine reads those three streams and computes the three OEE components in real time:

• Availability — planned production time minus downtime, divided by planned time.
• Performance — actual cycle time versus ideal cycle time, derived from your fastest recorded cycle in the last 30 days.
• Quality — good parts divided by total parts, pulled from reject counts your machine reports.

The combined OEE score appears on the machine card in the dashboard. Click through to see a time-series chart broken down by shift.

Configuration

For most shops connected via OPC-UA or MTConnect, zero configuration is required. ForgeMachine infers the ideal cycle time automatically. If your machine doesn't report reject counts, you can enter a fixed quality factor in Settings → Machine → OEE. The two calculable components will still update in real time; quality will use your fixed value.

World-class OEE benchmark

For reference: a world-class OEE score is 85% or above. Most shops run between 40–60%. ForgeMachine will flag machines consistently below 65% with a yellow indicator; below 50% triggers a red alert and a suggested investigation checklist.