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On a tour of the company, a group of interested people met the works council, who explained the benefits of automated O.E.E. calculation. The works council regards the main benefit as being an increase in production. It also confirmed that there was a high level of employee acceptance. Mr Schumann is of the opinion that, if an O.E.E. is less than 50%, this is a reason for increasing capacity and not for buying a new machine. An indicator which reads at least 70% is what is sought. It is checked whether the level of utilization of machinery can be increased by the reorganization of shifts in the production facilities. Runtime behaviour has been constantly recorded during the last three months. Specific measures can now be taken on the basis of these evaluations. To sum up, Mr Schumann has already assessed the value of machine data in the past and is now happy to have invested in a reliable MDE system in the new company. It only took a month for him to reach his decision. Now he cannot imagine not having the constant monitoring of production by machinery with automated e-mail or SMS reporting systems.
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