Factbird vs Point85 OEE

Factbird is a manufacturing intelligence suite that turns production data into operational insights and shop-floor workflows. Production Insights provides real-time and historical visibility, OEE analysis, downtime analytics, role-based views, and shift or batch scheduling. Connected Operations adds digital guidance, paperless quality checks, SOPs, checklists, execution flows, e-signatures, audit trails, and preventive maintenance. Knowledge Excellence includes learning management, a skills matrix, training tools, learner notifications, and PDCA action plans. Production data can come from Factbird Industrial IoT devices or directly from PLCs; the software presents live graphs, stop-cause reporting, and OEE monitoring. Connectivity includes MQTT, OPC UA (Kepware), a GraphQL API, and webhooks, with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 named as integration examples. Factbird says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with SSO, MFA, and an enterprise private-cloud option. Its apps require the Factbird platform. There is no dedicated iOS or Android app, though users can add the web app to a phone home screen. The company is based in Copenhagen and says it has helped manufacturers since 2016.

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.