Overall Equipment Utilisation (OEU) Monitoring and Remote Quality Check in Legacy Machine with Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Overall Equipment Utilisation (OEU) plays an important role as a benchmark for manufacturing companies to determine each machine's efficiency. Currently, there is no proper OEU measurement system in legacy machines and only relies on human observation. This project aims to develop a measurement of OEU system by using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). An efficient Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithm is needed to have a high percentage of recognition rate. The outcome of this project will be a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that display real-time OEU monitoring and remote quality check for legacy machines. Pytesseract-OCR Version 4 classifier using the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) method has been proposed in this paper. Furthermore, an error detection feature is designed from OCR output.