Key Takeaways
An effective OEE report doesn't just show you a score; it tells you exactly where your biggest, most expensive losses are coming from.
Stop thinking of reports as static PDFs. Modern OEE reports are dynamic dashboards where you can drill down from a high-level problem to investigate its root cause.
The ultimate goal of any report is to trigger a specific, assigned task. If your report isn't integrated with your CMMS, it's a dead end.
Paula, the Plant Manager, gets the weekly OEE report in her inbox.
It’s a 10-page PDF filled with charts and numbers. Her eyes land on the key metric: OEE on Line 2 was only 55% last week.
The report tells her what happened. It doesn't tell her why. And it certainly doesn't tell her what Mike's maintenance team is doing about it.
The report is a data dump with no "so what." It raises questions but provides no actionable answers.
A world-class report isn't about overwhelming you with data. It's about providing clear answers and a direct path to a solution. Here are the essential components.
What it is: A high-level view of your overall OEE score, plus the individual scores for Availability, Performance, and Quality. Crucially, these are shown as a trend over time (e.g., week-over-week).
The Diagnosis it gives you: This is the 10,000-foot view of plant health, perfect for a leader like Paula. It instantly shows if overall efficiency is improving, declining, or stagnating.
The Actionable Cure: In a modern system like Fabrico, this isn't just a static chart. If Paula sees the Availability trend has dipped by 5%, she doesn't have to email Mike and wait for an answer.
She can click on that data point to instantly drill down into the detailed downtime analysis for that specific period. It turns a question into an immediate answer.
What it is: A simple chart or list that identifies your top 5 downtime reasons by both how often they happen and how long they last. This is often called a Pareto analysis, focusing on the "vital few" problems.
The Diagnosis it gives you: It tells you exactly which one or two problems are causing 80% of your production losses. It stops your team from wasting precious time and resources fixing minor issues.
The Actionable Cure: This is where the report connects to real work. When a Maintenance Manager like Mike sees that "Bearing Failure on Machine 7" was his #1 downtime cause last week, he doesn't just add it to a list for discussion.
In Fabrico, he can click on that reason, see all the related historical work orders, and immediately create a new Preventive Maintenance task in the CMMS to increase the inspection frequency for that specific component.
What it is: A clear comparison of the total units you produced versus your production target. It also shows the total number of good units versus the number of rejects.
The Diagnosis it gives you: This directly shows how your OEE performance is impacting your ability to meet shipping deadlines and highlights the real financial cost of poor quality.
The Actionable Cure: When a report shows a high number of rejects during a specific product run, it shouldn't be just a historical fact. In an integrated system, this data is linked to the specific machine and work order.
This allows managers to quickly investigate if there's a machine that needs calibration or an operator who needs more training, and then assign those corrective tasks directly through the CMMS.
Static Reports (The Past): An Excel spreadsheet or a PDF is a snapshot in time. It's a history lesson. It's not interactive. Every question it raises requires another email, another meeting, or another report to be manually generated.
Dynamic Dashboards (The Present): A modern system like Fabrico treats reporting differently. It's not a document; it's a live, interactive workspace.
You start with the high-level summary and drill down into the details that matter. This turns reporting from a passive review into an active investigation.
The purpose of a report isn't just to present data; it's to start a workflow.
In Fabrico, every chart, every trend line, and every number is a potential starting point for a work order, a PM optimization, or a root cause analysis task.
The report is seamlessly connected to the solution, transforming it from a simple scorecard into your plant's operational command center.
Your live dashboard serves as your daily report. For meetings and analysis, a weekly report is ideal for tactical teams (Maintenance, Production) to spot trends. A monthly or quarterly report provides a high-level strategic overview for leadership.
Different roles need different views. Shift supervisors need live, on-the-floor data. Maintenance and Operations managers need weekly trend and downtime reports. Plant leadership needs a monthly executive summary. A good system allows you to tailor the report to the audience.
Yes. While Fabrico provides powerful, pre-built standard reports, you can easily filter, customize, and save report templates based on specific assets, date ranges, shifts, or any other data point you need to investigate.
An OEE report is only as valuable as the action it inspires. If your current reports are just ending up in an inbox, creating more questions than answers, it's time to demand a system that connects your insights to your actions.
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