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Your machines are talking. The question is whether you're listening. Equipment health monitoring transforms raw machine data into actionable intelligence — telling you not just what your equipment is doing right now, but predicting what it will do next. For manufacturers losing 5-20% of productive capacity to unplanned downtime, the difference between monitoring and not monitoring is often the difference between profit and loss.

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is the gold standard metric for manufacturing productivity. It combines three critical factors — availability, performance, and quality — into a single percentage that tells you how effectively your equipment is being used. World-class manufacturers achieve 85%+ OEE. The average? A sobering 60%.

The gap between 60% and 85% represents enormous untapped capacity. For a factory running $10M in annual production, improving OEE from 60% to 75% could unlock $2.5M in additional output — without buying a single new machine.

But you can't improve what you can't measure. And manual OEE tracking on clipboards and spreadsheets? That's how you get inaccurate data, delayed insights, and arguments about what actually happened on second shift.

This guide evaluates the best OEE monitoring software in 2026 and helps you choose the right platform for your operation.