Downtime, rework & OEE

Three features measure and handle shop-floor losses: Downtime records how long a machine stopped and why; Rework creates rework Work Orders from defective output; OEE computes availability × performance × quality from production reports and recorded downtime.

Who uses it

Team leads and operators record downtime and create rework orders (manufacturing:execute); supervisors and managers view OEE (analytics:manufacturing).

Before you start

Downtime tracking (manufacturing.downtime).
Rework orders (manufacturing.rework, requires partial_execution).
OEE (manufacturing.oee, requires downtime).
Downtime and rework reasons are maintained by your company in the shared lookup lists.

Steps

Record downtime

Go to Manufacturing → Downtime (/manufacturing/downtime), pick a work center or machine, a reason and a start time. Close the event when the machine runs again; edit or delete it if entered by mistake. Pausing with a reason on the shop floor also lands here.

Create a rework order

From a production report line with defects on a Work Order, or from an NCR linked to an order or operation, create a rework order — the Rework page (/manufacturing/rework) opens with the source filled in. The rework order gets a shortened routing starting at the failed operation.

View OEE

Go to Manufacturing → OEE (/manufacturing/oee), choose a period and a work center or machine. Review the three components and the downtime/scrap pareto; drill into a day to see the underlying figures.

Tips & limits

Each machine has at most one open downtime event; overlapping events on the same machine are rejected so OEE is not double-counted.
Total rework quantity from one source cannot exceed its defective quantity.
Per machine, only availability is measured today (reports do not record the machine); there is no per-shift OEE yet.
Asset maintenance can open downtime automatically — see Machines & maintenance.

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