{"id":10825,"date":"2026-06-04T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/blog\/the-university-of-zaragoza-publishes-a-study-in-the-journal-of-manufacturing-and-materials-processing-on-oee-in-our-injection-molding-machines\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:01:55","slug":"the-university-of-zaragoza-publishes-a-study-in-the-journal-of-manufacturing-and-materials-processing-on-oee-in-our-injection-molding-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/blog\/the-university-of-zaragoza-publishes-a-study-in-the-journal-of-manufacturing-and-materials-processing-on-oee-in-our-injection-molding-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Zaragoza publishes a study on OEE in our injection molding machines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The international specialized <strong>journal Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing<\/strong> has published a study on how Overall Equipment Effectiveness<strong>(OEE<\/strong>) can be used as a strategic performance indicator in smart manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research, carried out by <strong>Sonia Val<\/strong>, from the <strong>Department of Design and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Zaragoza<\/strong>, has been developed during 14 months on one of our plastic injection molding machines. The paper confirms the value of OEE as a KPI to drive continuous improvement and efficiency in advanced industrial environments.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inyeccion-2-gravalos-40-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-510\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inyeccion-2-gravalos-40-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inyeccion-2-gravalos-40-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inyeccion-2-gravalos-40-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inyeccion-2-gravalos-40-1536x991.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inyeccion-2-gravalos-40.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the study, the analysis of production data allowed us to <strong>identify opportunities for improvement<\/strong> that have helped us to optimize our processes and achieve performance levels very close to <strong>international benchmarks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would like to thank Sonia Val and the University of Zaragoza for their trust in us for this project and for <strong>sharing their knowledge<\/strong> after more than a year of work in our facilities.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can consult the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2504-4494\/10\/5\/159\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2504-4494\/10\/5\/159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>through this link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international specialized journal Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing has published a study on how Overall Equipment Effectiveness(OEE) can be used as a strategic &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-arrow-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Know more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10839,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions\/10839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravalos-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}