The problem
What was breaking.
Downtime gets logged, but root cause never gets categorized. Same fault keeps recurring across shifts.
Production planning runs on a separate ERP from quality logs. Variances surface a day late.
OEE reports take 36 hours to generate. Operators are running by gut, not by data.
What we did
The moves.
- ⌬Connected line PLCs, the MES, and the QC system through Apogee's gateway.
- ⌖Forensic auto-classifies downtime by root cause: process gap, system failure, external.
- ↗Predictive forecasts next-shift OEE with confidence intervals. Operators stage adjustments.
- ◉Observatory surfaces yield drift per cell — the chartreuse heatmap, not a weekly PDF.
Results · first 90 days
The numbers.
OEE LIFT
+4.6pt
first 90 days
DOWNTIME RCA
100%
classified within 14m
MTTR
−38%
vs prior baseline
“We've had visibility into downtime forever. We finally have visibility into the reason. APO sorts every event into a bucket we can act on.”
Mei T.
Plant Manager
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