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A supervisor and an engineer on an assembly line pointing at a live OEE dashboard showing Availability, Performance and Quality gauges and a downtime timeline
September 25, 2026 · The SubAssembly AI team · 4 min read

Why OEE Tracking Fails on the Plant Floor

Most plants already track OEE and still take hours to find out what happened when it drops. The fix is watching Availability, Performance and Quality while the line is running — and connecting the loss to the events around it.

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A production engineer on a plant floor comparing a hand-annotated printed spreadsheet against a schedule on screen
September 24, 2026 · The SubAssembly AI team · 4 min read

The Spreadsheet That Became a Manufacturing System

Every plant runs on spreadsheets built by the people closest to the work. The trouble starts when the spreadsheet becomes the system — and the fix isn't a blank-page software project.

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