Equipment Modes and States

Sepasoft MES Module Suite

About Equipment Modes and States

OEE Downtime module organizes equipment status with Equipment Method and Equipment State.

Equipment Mode captures the higher level status of the equipment answering the question: What are we doing with the equipment e.g., Production, Maintenance, Changeover.

Equipment State represents the local status of a line or the cells, i.e., equipment on the line.

Watch a video about equipment Modes and States.

Equipment Modes

Equipment Modes are organized by Equipment Mode Types:

Production
Idle
Changeover
Maintenance
Other
Disabled

These types are provided with OEE and are not changeable.

Equipment States

Equipment States are organized by Equipment State Types:

Unplanned Downtime
Planned Downtime
Blocked
Starved
Running
Idle
Disabled

Any number of states can be created based on these types.

Why Use Modes

	Allow for a more granular analysis of equipment utilization such as: Analyze how much time a line spends in each mode, such maintenance, training, changeover. Also to analyze the equipment states within configured modes of running, blocked, idle, faulted. Capture run hours on equipment to determine maintenance scheduling and other activities.