Monitor production, track downtime and improve OEE

Manufacturing companies in 14 different industries are using Evocon. The most popular signals that our system registers are pieces and boxes. But the system can also monitor running meters, litres, productive work time and flow production. You can read more about this here: “How Evocon monitors different production process types?”

Evocon’s OEE tracking software is very versatile. And even though all companies have a production process that is slightly unique, we can always find a suitable solution. To learn more about which production process types fit Evocon best, continue reading our article: “What production process types can Evocon monitor?”

There are multiple options to connect production signals from your machines to Evocon. The most common way is a new industrial sensor. You can also use a sensor that is already available on your production line or machine. Another standard method is to use a PLC output connection using a relay (e.g. with Andon lights). These signals connect to Evocon’s device that sends the captured data to our cloud server in AWS.

If you have machines that already collect production data to a local database, then we can set up Evocon without using any additional hardware (data transfer is via HTTPS API requests).

You can read more about this in our post “How to get production signals from machines?”.

In general, the hardware you need to collect data from machines or production lines using Evocon is:

1. Evocon’s device (used to log production signals)
2. Ethernet cable
3. Sensor or relay
4. A display device (PC or tablet)

The final solution depends on your production process but here is a visual overview of what hardware you need.

To start monitoring your machines, we provide you with our Internet of Things (IoT) device, which can be set up by anyone in the company.  In fact, the whole process of setting up Evocon is very simple and straightforward:

1. We get to know your production process by asking a few basic questions.
2. We suggest a viable, reliable solution.
3. We send the necessary hardware via courier and then provide follow-up instructions.
4. Upon delivery, all your team will have to do is complete the installation by following the simple instructions provided.
5. When ongoing support is ever required, we’ll provide it free via phone or email.

Moreover, the whole process of contacting our team and getting real-time data from your machines takes only a few days. Have a look at our short explainer video about the setup to get a better idea of the process.

Our team works hard to keep your production data safe, secure, and private. This is our responsibility, and we take it seriously and you have full control over who sees your production data.

We protect all data transmitted between Evocon and users using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Furthermore, we encrypt collected and stored data at rest using an industry standard AES-256 encryption algorithm. Also, our protocol is to apply encryption to storage of live service data, snapshots and backups.

Additionally, Evocon follows the SOC-2 protocol to keep the clients’ data safe. SOC-2 is an auditing procedure that confirms secure data management. SOC-2 manages clients data based on five fundamental principles: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy. Read more on SOC-2

We know that trust is earned and not given. As a result of our continued efforts, today users in 40+ countries trust our service and we look forward to earning yours. Learn about security at Evocon.

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is a lean manufacturing tool and universal best practice to monitor, evaluate and improve the effectiveness of a production process. This could be an assembly line, machine cell, packaging line, filling machine, CNC machine or any other production equipment.

We use OEE because it helps us understand our production process.  By quantifying and visualizing all losses from our production line and machines, OEE not only shows what we produced with our resources but also what we could have produced. In other words, OEE helps us understand the true potential of our factories.

Read more: What is OEE and how does it work?