Peakboard OEE Software vs Point85 OEE

Peakboard OEE Software records machine run times, unit counts and scrap, then continuously calculates availability, performance and quality. It assigns reasons to losses and keeps OEE values for comparisons across shifts and periods. Operators can enter downtime and its cause by touch when a machine has no interface. Machine data can come through OPC UA, Siemens S7, MQTT or Modbus; target values, orders and inspection results can come from SAP, MES or a SQL database. Ready-made OEE applications can be customized with drag-and-drop tools or Peakbot without code. They run inside the customer network on a Peakboard Box or existing Windows hardware, without middleware. OEE values can also be stored with timestamps in Peakboard Hub for comparing shifts, lines and periods. Peakboard lists a free plan and a 180-day trial, with paid plans from €49/mo (annual). The Peakboard Box supports one monitor over HDMI, and splitting a visualization across multiple monitors is not intended.

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.