OEE Software Development
Most OEE software is a dashboard layer over machine data a plant already owns, priced as an ongoing per-line or per-sensor SaaS fee. Once your PLCs and sensors are feeding data, building a custom overall equipment effectiveness dashboard is often cheaper over time than renewing seat licenses line after line. We build the dashboard, the alerting, and the historical reporting around the data you already have.
Custom OEE dashboards built on your existing PLC and sensor data feeds
Availability, performance, and quality tracking calculated the way your plant defines them
Downtime and changeover reporting without a per-line SaaS fee
Fixed-cost delivery, scoped up front, with source code ownership
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The problem
Paying a per-line or per-sensor fee every month for a dashboard sitting on top of data your own machines already produce?
Rolling out another line and watching the SaaS bill grow before you've proven the ROI on the first one?
Short answer
OEE software calculates overall equipment effectiveness, availability, performance, and quality, from PLC and sensor data on a plant floor, and displays it as line-level and plant-level dashboards with downtime and changeover reporting. Manufacturers with the data already flowing use it to replace manual downtime logs and spreadsheet-based line reporting. RaftLabs builds custom OEE dashboards for manufacturers who already have sensors and PLCs instrumented and want the analytics layer without an ongoing per-line SaaS fee. An MVP dashboard for one or two lines typically runs $20,000-$50,000 over 12-15 weeks; a full multi-line rollout with historical reporting and alerting runs $50,000-$100,000 over 15-18 weeks, at a fixed cost.
Key takeaways
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Availability, performance, and quality are all calculations on data your PLCs and sensors already produce once a line is instrumented. Most OEE platforms charge an ongoing per-line or per-sensor fee for the dashboard sitting on top of that data. We build the dashboard, the alerting, and the historical reporting once, on the data you already own.
Capabilities
Line-level and plant-level dashboards showing availability, performance, and quality, built directly on your PLC and sensor data feeds.
Downtime reason codes and changeover events captured automatically from machine data, replacing manual logs and end-of-shift spreadsheets.
Calculation logic built around how your plant actually defines each metric, not a generic formula that doesn't match your reason codes or thresholds.
Ingestion from PLCs, sensors, and existing machine monitoring systems, scoped to the protocols and hardware your lines already run.
Shift, line, and plant-level trends over time, so supervisors can see whether a downtime pattern is a one-off or a recurring problem.
Notifications when a line drops below a target OEE threshold or a downtime event crosses a duration you define.
How we work
We map what data your PLCs and sensors already produce, what's missing, and how your plant defines availability, performance, and quality. You leave with a written scope and a fixed-price quote.
We design the ingestion pipeline from your machine data sources and the calculation logic for each metric, matched to your reason codes and thresholds.
You review working software at each sprint. Dashboards, downtime tracking, and alerting are built and tested incrementally against real line data.
The dashboard runs against live production data so your team can validate the numbers against what they already track before operators depend on it.
Why us
The engineers who audit your machine data also build the dashboard. No offshore handoff after the contract is signed.
We scope the work, calculate the cost, and lock it in writing before any development starts.
A track record building data platforms that connect to industrial hardware and turn raw sensor feeds into decisions plant teams can act on.
No per-line license, no vendor lock-in after delivery. The codebase, and everything built into it, is yours.
Tell us what data your lines already produce and where the gaps are. We'll scope a fixed-cost build.
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Three-year average engagement. Founders and operators describing the work in their own words. No marketing varnish.
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Read moreOEE software calculates overall equipment effectiveness, a manufacturing metric combining availability, performance, and quality, from data produced by PLCs and sensors on a plant floor, and displays it as line-level and plant-level dashboards with downtime and changeover reporting.
Yes. OEE software depends on data already flowing from PLCs, sensors, or a machine monitoring layer. If that instrumentation isn't in place yet, we scope the sensor and connectivity work first during discovery.
Established platforms like Tulip, Augury, and Vorne are strong choices for manufacturers who want a turnkey multi-line rollout without building anything in-house. Custom software makes sense once a plant already has sensor and PLC data flowing and just needs the dashboard and analytics layer, without paying an ongoing per-line or per-sensor fee for a system that duplicates data you already own.
A single-line or two-line MVP dashboard typically runs $20,000-$50,000 and takes 12-15 weeks. A full multi-line build with historical reporting and alerting runs $50,000-$100,000 over 15-18 weeks. We scope a fixed cost after discovery.
Yes. Downtime reason codes, changeover definitions, and quality thresholds vary by plant. We build the calculation logic around your definitions during discovery, not a generic formula.
Yes. Once machine data is flowing into the dashboard, operators and supervisors stop hand-logging downtime and changeovers on paper or in spreadsheets, and reporting pulls from the same live data instead of an end-of-shift reconciliation.
Work with us
We scope OEE Software Development in 30 minutes. You walk away with a clear cost, timeline, and approach. No commitment required.