OEE Software for Contract Manufacturers and CMOs

Key Takeaways: Contract manufacturers produce multiple customer products on shared equipment, creating OEE requirements that differ from those of a single-product plant. Customer-specific OEE reporting, campaign-level performance segmentation, and equipment handoff documentation are baseline requirements for any OEE platform serving contract manufacturing.

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Fabrico is built to handle all three.

OEE software for contract manufacturers must solve a problem that dedicated manufacturer platforms never encounter: multiple customers, shared equipment, different performance requirements for each.

The unique OEE requirements of contract manufacturing:

• Customer-specific OEE segmentation: When a customer asks for OEE data for their production campaigns, you must provide availability, performance, and quality rates for the specific time periods when their product was running, not aggregate OEE across all customers sharing the line
• Customer data isolation: A customer requesting their OEE data must not see another customer's production performance. Fabrico's role-based access control handles this at the data level.
• Campaign-level audit trails: For pharmaceutical CMOs, FDA requires that each production campaign is documented with equipment maintenance status and calibration records, the full CMMS integration that Fabrico provides natively

Fabrico's campaign tracking connects OEE data to production orders, enabling customer-level analysis:

• When a customer's production campaign runs, Fabrico tracks OEE against that campaign's production order
• OEE reporting for that campaign is isolated to the customer's own data, automatically, without manual filtering
• Customer portal access can be configured to give each customer visibility into their own campaign OEE, the transparency that differentiates CMOs in competitive markets

When shared production equipment has an unplanned maintenance event during a customer campaign, Fabrico records both the OEE availability loss and the maintenance work order against the correct customer production period. This creates accurate customer reporting for maintenance-related downtime and protects the contract manufacturer in billing disputes.

For pharmaceutical CMOs producing drug products, FDA 21 CFR Part 211 requires that equipment is maintained in a qualified state for each production campaign. Fabrico provides this evidence automatically:

• CMMS PM compliance records showing maintenance execution between campaigns
• Calibration records for production equipment connected to the OEE production periods they cover
• OEE performance data during the campaign showing equipment operated within validated parameters

This three-element evidence package, PM compliance + calibration records + OEE performance, is available from Fabrico in under 2 hours for any production campaign. Assembling the same evidence from separate OEE and CMMS systems takes 1-2 days and introduces reconciliation errors that FDA inspectors sometimes identify as evidence of inadequate system control.