ABB Manufacturing Execution System vs Point85 OEE

ABB Manufacturing Execution System coordinates manufacturing processes and gives operators, supervisors, production engineers, and plant managers information related to productivity, quality, and flexibility. Production order management covers order and production buffers, workflow, and automatic routing mapped from ERP. Scheduling follows ISA-95 and B2MML data exchange and provides visual Gantt charts with manual or automatic modes. The quality module supports parameter management, manual or automatic data collection, product test certificates, in-process controls, tolerance validation, non-conformity reporting, and checklists. Listed ERP connections include SAP, ERP LN, Baan, IBM Maximo, and other systems, with interfaces such as ODBC, OLE DB, web services, XML, OPC, and TCP/IP. Equipment connections include barcode scanners and printers, weighing scales, automated guided vehicles, PLC-based equipment, and Siemens automated production lines. ABB lists applications across industries including food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, metals, mining, oil and gas, and pulp and paper. For pharmaceutical and life sciences solutions, ABB describes full-scope coverage according to GAMP5 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11. Pricing is available on request; ABB directs prospective buyers to contact the company or a channel partner.

Point85 OEE is a free, open-source suite for collecting manufacturing equipment data, calculating overall equipment effectiveness, and monitoring availability, performance, and quality events. Its OEE calculation combines availability, performance rate, and quality rate in a nine-category time-loss model. The Designer configures equipment, data sources, event-resolution scripts, schedules, availability reasons, materials, and units of measure. The Monitor shows equipment metrics, collector notifications and status, event timelines, trends, time-loss charts, and Pareto charts. Listed data sources include OPC DA/UA, HTTP/S, RabbitMQ, JMS, MQTT, Kafka, WebSocket, email, database interface tables, file shares, Modbus, cron jobs, and GE Proficy Historian. The suite includes Designer, Collector, Monitor, desktop and web operator applications, and operator apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and Chrome/Edge. Collector runs as a Windows service or Unix daemon and stores equipment events in a relational database for OEE, MTBF, and MTTR calculations. Supported databases include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and HSQLDB. The web operator application is distributed as a WAR file for a compatible web server, such as Tomcat. The OEE-Designer repository identifies its license as MIT.