Smart Manufacturing Classroom: Factory AI, Machine Utilisation & Subsidies

The Smart Manufacturing Classroom covers practical know-how for bringing AI and IoT into factories: how to calculate machine utilisation and OEE, how to collect data from older machines automatically, how to read gauges automatically, and the government support available for adoption. Below are the articles in this series, with more to come.

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How to Calculate Machine Utilisation Rate: Formula, OEE Difference, and Automatic Collection from Old Machines

Machine utilisation is the share of planned production time a machine is actually producing. Using one shift on a stamping press, this article calculates utilisation, performance, quality rate and OEE step by step, explains how utilisation differs from OEE, why reported utilisation can exceed 100%, whether higher is always better, why manual records are often inaccurate, and how to collect data from older machines automatically without modifying them.