Analyzing and Predicting Overall Equipment Effectiveness in Manufacturing Industries using Machine Learning

This paper investigates the use of machine learning algorithms to derive an approximated metric model for predicting the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) from an industrial process. Analyzing this information, it is possible to ensure better understanding of the business and stimulating the search for improvements of the productive efficiency in industries. In this context, our objective is to explore and apply different ML techniques (supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms) to derive an approximated metric for estimating the overall efficiency in a production line using historical data (dataset) obtained from actual machines in a factory. By using the manufacturing data of a product and specific learning algorithms, a prediction model is created to identify the ideal OEE metric, indicating that the equipment will be used according to its capacity and productive efficiency. Thus, we are able to predict the OEE of a given machine, and to analyze the behavior obtained in order to improve production. From the learning OEE metric, it is possible to analyze the equipment behavior and verify the existence of some patterns which could be used to propose improvements in the manufacturing process. Experimental results have demonstrated the feasibility and evaluation of the proposed models for verifying the efficiency of the industrial plant for different business standards.