Adding a New Machine Condition

Both the OEE and Outage Reporting analytics classify your machine state.

By default, the include four main states - Stopped, Running, Idle and Blocking.

However, you can add more to your logic whenever you wish.

In this case, we're going to add the Maintenance condition, which should appear whenever there's scheduled maintenance on the system.

We get the maintenance schedule from an ARDI event source.

When adding a new machine condition to an OEE analytic, remember to consider if the condition should be part of your OEE percentage.

Scheduled maintenance is important, and your crews shouldn't be penalised for it. If your OEE figures are targeted at people, shifts or crews, you should mark scheduled maintenance as good.

If you're figures are targeted at equipment reliability, it might be worth marking these as bad.