The High-Speed OEE Selection Guide: Why Generic Dashboards Fail Food, Bev, and Plastics

The TCO Trap: The Hidden Costs of Disconnected Data

Many manufacturers attempt to save money by purchasing a standalone OEE "scoreboard" or building a custom tool in PowerBI.

While the upfront licensing might seem lower, the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of these disconnected systems is often 3x higher due to "Integration Taxes."

Every hour your IT team spends trying to bridge a production dashboard to a legacy maintenance system is an hour of lost innovation.

Worse, your maintenance team remains reactive because they are always looking at "yesterday's news" instead of real-time machine health.

Fabrico is a cloud-based MES and OEE platform for manufacturers, with maintenance management (CMMS) built in, so the machine pulse and the technician’s wrench live in the same system.

3 Questions to Ask Before You Commit to an OEE Tool

1. Can the system see what your PLCs miss?

Traditional sensors tell you when a machine stops, but they rarely explain why it happened.

You must ensure the platform includes visual intelligence like Fabrico’s Inefficiencies Zoom-In (Computer Vision).

When a micro-stop occurs, the system captures a video clip so Mike, the maintenance manager, can see if the cause was a material defect or a mechanical slip.

2. Does the "Diagnostic" lead straight to the "Cure"?

An OEE score of 65% doesn't improve your output; a technician with a prioritized work order does.

Ask if OEE performance drops reach the right technician at once, so a Work Order can be opened in a Field-Ready CMMS.

If a filler slows down by 10%, Tom, the technician, should receive a smart notification on his mobile device before the operator even has time to pick up a radio.

3. Is the Production Schedule "Maintenance-Aware"?

A schedule built on theoretical capacity is a fantasy that leads to missed deadlines and expensive overtime.

Your OEE platform must show planners the real-time health and maintenance backlog of every machine.

Fabrico shows planners actual OEE performance and pending PM tasks in real time; production planning itself is on Fabrico's roadmap.

Comparison Matrix: Integrated Action vs. Passive Monitoring

The ROI of "Decision Latency" Reduction

Decision Latency is the silent killer of profitability, representing the time wasted between a machine stop and the moment a repair begins.

For plant leadership, reducing this latency is the fastest lever to lower the Maintenance Cost per Unit.

In high-speed plants, a 15-minute delay in technician response can result in thousands of dollars in lost throughput.

By shortening the "Fault-to-Fix" cycle, Fabrico helps you reclaim this revenue capacity from the Hidden Factory.