Point85 OEE vs SYMESTIC OEE Software

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.

SYMESTIC OEE Software automatically captures machine data and calculates availability, performance and quality for real-time OEE monitoring. Dashboards and plant-floor displays show OEE live, with downtime classified using the Six Big Losses. It connects older and newer machines through OPC UA or IoT-box retrofits without changing the PLC. The cloud-native platform runs on Microsoft Azure and buffers data locally during transmission interruptions. It also lists bidirectional ERP integration with SAP and Microsoft Dynamics, plus REST API connections for other systems. The Professional plan costs €850 a month, billed annually, and includes unlimited users, dashboards and shopfloor clients, with 12 months of data retention. Enterprise pricing is available on request. One-time OPC-UA Cloud Gateway and DI Cloud Gateway options are listed, as is a 30-day free trial. Subscriptions include onboarding and customer success and technical remote support. SYMESTIC lists Android, iOS, web and API access, and states platform availability of 99.9%.