OEE Software Pricing Models Compared: Per Machine vs Per User vs Site Licence

Key Takeaways: Continuous Improvement Managers run kaizen events, SMED programs, and PDCA cycles, but most of their improvement data is anecdotal because there's no systematic measurement before and after each initiative. Fabrico gives CI Managers the OEE baseline before each improvement event, the real-time measurement during, and the 30/60/90 day tracking after, turning "we think it helped" into "it improved OEE availability by 4.2 percentage points and hasn't regressed in 8 weeks."

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OEE software for CI managers is the measurement infrastructure that makes lean programs credible to management.

The measurement gap in most CI programs: kaizen events are selected based on experience and observation. Improvements are declared when the event ends. Nobody measures whether the gain held 60 days later.

Fabrico closes this gap with systematic before-and-after OEE measurement for every improvement initiative.

Fabrico's OEE data connects to every major CI methodology:

SMED: Fabrico measures changeover time per machine and product combination, average, minimum, and maximum. Post-SMED changeover times are tracked automatically against the pre-SMED baseline. Every SMED event has objective ROI validation.

Kaizen: Fabrico ranks OEE losses by financial impact, lost production time × contribution margin. CI teams select kaizen targets from this ranked list instead of gut feel. Post-kaizen OEE tracking confirms whether the root cause was correctly identified.

PDCA: Fabrico's continuous monitoring creates the "Check" phase automatically. OEE trends surface problems that need new PDCA cycles without waiting for a manual audit.

TPM Pillar 1 (Focused Improvement): Fabrico's AI Agent analyzes OEE and maintenance patterns to suggest which assets deserve focused improvement attention, the bad actors driving 80% of losses from 20% of assets.

The CI Manager's recurring challenges without OEE software:

• Selecting improvement priorities based on opinions rather than ranked losses
• Running kaizen events without pre-event baselines to validate against
• Claiming improvements that management can't verify
• Losing gains when the improvement champion moves to a different role

With Fabrico:

• Improvement priority selection from Fabrico's ranked OEE loss data, financial impact, not gut feel
• Pre-event OEE baseline documented in Fabrico before every initiative
• Post-event OEE tracking that management can verify independently
• Fabrico maintains the standard work documentation for every improvement, gains survive personnel changes

CI Managers who use Fabrico consistently get more improvement budget approved, because the ROI evidence is objective, continuous, and board-presentable.