Manufacturing performance glossary
Every term used in the Augos Factory knowledge base and reports, defined in one sentence each. The definitions are the canonical ones the Augos platform uses, so a word means the same thing on this page, in a report and in a meeting.
Standard OEE
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
The standard manufacturing health score: Availability × Performance × Quality, the share of planned production time in which a line produced good output at its ideal speed. What is OEE?
Availability
The proportion of planned production time that the line was actually running.
Performance
Actual running speed against the line's ideal speed, measured as the units produced divided by the units the Ideal Run Rate would have produced in the same run time.
Quality
Good output divided by total output.
Ideal Run Rate
The nameplate production rate configured for the line and product: the maximum it is designed to achieve under ideal conditions.
Planned Production Time
Shift length minus planned stops; the denominator of Availability.
TEEP (Total Effective Equipment Performance)
OEE measured against all calendar time rather than planned production time, so unscheduled shifts count as a Utilisation loss.
Net Production Time
The productive time left after losses: Total Paid Time − (Planning + Operator + Technical Losses).
Paid Duration and Dark Hours
Paid Duration is paid operating time; Dark Hours is the non-operational remainder (Total Duration − Paid Duration).
Effective Runtime
The time the process is actually operational within paid duration.
Actual, Net Actual and Expected
Actual is units produced; Net Actual is good units that passed quality; Expected is the units that should have been produced given paid time and the product's rate.
Bottleneck
The slowest or most constrained point in the process.
SEC (Specific Energy Consumption)
Energy consumed per unit of output; the bridge between the Factory and Energy pillars.
The Owner column
OEE+
Augos's extension of standard OEE: it keeps the standard loss breakdown, adds the owner on every lost minute, and separates each loss into the parts that different functions control. Standard OEE shows the loss; OEE+ shows who owns it.
Owner and owner attribution
Every lost minute assigned to the person or function who can recover it; the "+" in OEE+.
The six owners
Operator, technician, planning, quality, external and shared: the functions a loss can be attributed to.
Loss breakdown
How OEE+ sorts lost time: OEE factor → loss category → cause → owner.
Planning Efficiency Loss
The time management scheduled for a planned task, owned by planning; excluded from Availability so operators are not penalised for following the schedule.
Operator Discipline
The time a planned task lost or gained against its Standard Allowed Time. The overruns alone are the compliance opportunity, owned by the operator. Some report screens still label it Operator Compliance.
Standard Allowed Time
The approved benchmark duration for a specific planned task on a specific line and product.
Capacity Opportunity
What is recorded when operators consistently beat the Standard Allowed Time: recoverable capacity that can be locked in by tightening the standard.
Best Operator Benchmark
The line's best plausible day, synthesised from your own best operators' times for each cause; an empirical maximum from your own floor.
Typical Time and Recommended Time
Typical Time is the median duration of a stop category; Recommended Time is the median minus the median absolute deviation, a fast pace the line already reaches regularly. Both use the last 12 months of events; the Recommended Time needs 30 or more.
Recoverable Time (Potential Gain)
Typical Time minus Recommended Time: the time reclaimable if every event matched best practice.
Reason Codes
Operator-selected stoppage categories such as Material Starve, Speed Loss or Changeover; some are system-inferred and operator-confirmed.
Planned and unplanned stops
Planned stops, unplanned stops and interruptions
The three primary stop classifications. Planned stops are scheduled (changeovers, cleaning, breaks); unplanned stops are declared halts such as breakdowns, material starves and waits; interruptions (what standard OEE calls minor stops or micro-stops) are the short, high-frequency stoppages, below the site's stop threshold (set per site, in seconds), that traditionally go unrecorded and hide root causes when lumped into Performance. Augos measures true speed and reports interruptions as their own measured stop loss. Thresholds are set per site. Mean Time Between Interruptions (MTBI) and the interruption ratio measure interruptions.
Planned stops
Scheduled events such as changeovers, cleaning, sanitation, breaks and maintenance, measured against their Standard Allowed Time.
Unplanned stops
Breakdowns and faults; the home of the Stoppage Response Stages, MTBF and MTTR, and the Kill Zone.
Changeover
Switching a line from one product or SKU to another.
SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die)
The changeover-reduction methodology.
Augos Assist
The stoppage attribution for the technical team's response and resolution time: it times each stage of a stop and splits it between operator and technician; an optional extra.
Stoppage Response Stages
The five sequential, separately timed stages of responding to a stop: Operator Evaluation, Operator Resolution, Technician Response, Active Wrench and Inactive Wrench.
Operator Evaluation
Time to assess the fault and decide to call a technician.
Operator Resolution
Time the operator spends trying to clear the stop alone.
Technician Response
Time from escalation to the technician arriving.
Active Wrench and Inactive Wrench
Active Wrench is time the technician is physically working on the machine; Inactive Wrench is time on the machine but not working, for example waiting for a part.
Reliability and analysis
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
Average running time between stops.
MTTR (Mean Time To Repair)
Average time from a stop's start to the machine running again.
Kill Zone
The high-frequency, high-duration quadrant of the fault scatter; faults flagged for capital engineering.
Pareto (downtime)
Ranking losses by impact to find the vital few.
Speed Triad
Actual, True and Rated Speed on the Job Card, isolating where production speed is lost.
Rated Speed
The maximum theoretical speed for the active SKU, looked up per product code.
CV (Coefficient of Variation)
A consistency measure; a low CV means predictable, standardised performance.
Outlier (IQR method)
A stop beyond the inter-quartile-range upper bound, excluded from baselines so rare catastrophic events do not skew standards.
Hardware and platform
Augos Operator Terminal
The sealed touchscreen unit in the line panel that reads the pulse sensor, lets the operator log stops and reasons, stores readings locally and syncs to the cloud.
Pulse sensor
A sensor that clips onto the line and counts every machine cycle without touching the PLC.
Edge resilience
The terminal keeps measuring when the network drops and syncs the backlog on reconnect.
AI Bridge payload (AI-ready export)
A structured data export that LLMs, ERPs and BI tools can read without engineering clean-up.
Not Measured
The surfaced difference between a parent meter and the sum of its measured children; a data-honesty principle, never an inference.
The offer
One offer
Augos Factory has no tiers. One offer covers every line, and the monthly fee includes every capability except the metrics that depend on Augos Assist, which is an optional extra.
Source for every definition: Augos Factory terminology (June 2026) and the Augos platform glossary