Essembi vs Point85 OEE

Essembi is a continuous improvement platform and plant-floor operating system for process manufacturers. Its production tools report OEE, downtime, job status, shift targets, and throughput across lines, with live views for plant-floor tablets. Teams can record stops by reason, line, and shift, then use Pareto views to spot major causes. Quality tools track defects, corrective actions, and root-cause analysis; maintenance tools handle work orders and asset health. Labor costs can be linked to jobs using employee RFID badge scans. Essembi says its AI answers questions about live production data and prepares pre-job briefings using part history. Workspaces run in a browser on desktops, tablets, barcode scanners, and TVs, and users can tailor forms, views, automations, and role-based security. Connections include Microsoft Teams ticket creation, a REST API, and file imports, including through FTP. API results are limited to 10,000 cells, measured as rows times columns. Pricing is on request and based on production lines and data collection devices per line; implementation services are available as needed.

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.