Dover Corporation · Industrial manufacturing

Unifying 17 plants to unlock a 12% average OEE gain

Kavax delivered a common digital operations layer across a diverse global manufacturing network, connecting production, maintenance, quality, and enterprise data without forcing every plant into the same machine environment.

12%average OEE uplift
17plants unified
300+machines connected

The challenge

Creating a reliable operating baseline.

  • Production, downtime, and performance data remained isolated in PLCs, SCADA systems, spreadsheets, and plant-specific practices.
  • OEE definitions and downtime classifications varied between sites, making enterprise benchmarking unreliable.
  • Maintenance was heavily calendar-driven, with limited cross-asset visibility into MTBF, MTTR, and emerging failure patterns.
  • Quality checks and compliance routines depended on paper or delayed entry, increasing response and audit effort.

Kavax delivery

Connecting data, decisions, and workflows.

  • Established standardized asset, product, shift, OEE, and downtime definitions across the connected plants.
  • Connected more than 300 machines to a shared data layer and delivered line-, shift-, plant-, and enterprise-level performance views.
  • Introduced real-time OEE, loss, labour, process, maintenance, and asset-health analytics.
  • Digitized quality checks, operational logbooks, EHS routines, and compliance workflows.
  • Integrated production and maintenance information with ERP master and transactional data.

Business outcomes

Measurable operational improvement.

  • 12% average OEE uplift across connected lines.
  • Faster corrective action through live visibility into production losses.
  • More consistent downtime analysis and cross-plant benchmarking.
  • Condition-driven maintenance decisions supported by asset-history and reliability analytics.
  • Faster deviation response and audit-ready digital records.

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