Free calculators and printable templates to measure OEE, MTTR and downtime — then let Factory Knowledge measure it for you, automatically and in real time.
Paper logs miss micro-stops, round off downtime and rely on end-of-shift memory. Factory Knowledge measures the real thing on your line — automatically, continuously, in real time.
Every stop, micro-stop, speed loss and reject captured the moment it happens — no clipboard, no end-of-shift recall, no blind spots.
Availability, Performance and Quality recomputed continuously, with the weakest pillar surfaced for every line and every shift — no spreadsheet required.
Reliability KPIs and a live Pareto of causes, ready for the morning meeting instead of next month's report — so you fix the right thing first.
Three calculators, one per pillar. Plug in your own numbers — or play with the defaults to see how each variable moves the result.
Before you automate anything, you should know what you'd be automating. Four shop-floor forms, the same ones used by glass, PET and canning plants — ready to print, fill, and feed your weekly Pareto.
One row per hour, one column per machine. Counts, target, deviation, signature — feeds Availability and Performance directly.
Open & print →One line per stop: start, end, machine, cause, action. Feeds your monthly Pareto and your MTTR / MTBF directly.
Open & print →Twelve-minute observation grid. The fastest way to surface micro-stops — the loss family no production log ever catches.
Open & print →Plot nameplate vs. actual speed for every machine on the line. The single sheet that calibrates the ideal rate — and stops you faking your OEE.
Open & print →Factory Knowledge is a small connected device — the fk-x — paired with a dashboard built for the shop floor. It clips onto a machine in about two minutes, reads its real state, and turns every stop, micro-stop and speed loss into live OEE, MTTR and MTBF. No PLC integration, no operator data entry, no spreadsheets.
Monitor one line end to end. The fastest way to prove the value of continuous measurement on your highest-loss machine — live data the same afternoon you install it.
For complex lines: station-by-station tracking and real-time bottleneck detection across the whole synchronised line — so you see which machine is starving or blocking the others.
Every calculator on this page depends on what you type in. fk-x devices from Factory Knowledge plug into a line in minutes and log downtime, micro-stops, rate and quality continuously — so your OEE, MTTR and MTBF are computed from real data, not from end-of-shift memory.
OEE = Availability × Performance × Quality. Edit any field — the result recomputes instantly.
Enter your last breakdowns — repair time per event, plus the total operating time over the window. Intrinsic availability = MTBF ÷ (MTBF + MTTR).
What one minute of stopped line really costs — contribution margin, labour and overhead included.