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title: "Set OEE and utilization goals"
description: "One percentage colors every gauge in IoTFlows. Set the organization goal from the Utilization tile on the Assets page, override it on the machines whose realistic ceiling genuinely differs by turning on Set Custom Utilization / OEE Goal in a machine's Uptime gauge, and read the table of which surface uses which goal. The coloring is binary, green at or above and red below, with no orange; the same percentage also colors the parts and cycle gauges; and the comparison is computed across the whole window you are viewing rather than averaged per shift. Owner or Administrator."
category: "Manage assets"
source_url: "https://www.iotflows.com/docs/monitoring/oee-goals/"
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# Set OEE and utilization goals

Set the percentage that every uptime and production gauge in IoTFlows is colored against.

An *OEE goal* is a single target percentage. At or above it a gauge draws green, below it the gauge draws red. Your organization has one goal, and every machine inherits it until you give that machine a goal of its own.

The metric being judged is *uptime*, availability: running time over running plus stopped time. See [Uptime](/docs/monitoring/metrics-reference/#uptime).

**Before you start**

- Sign in as an Organization Owner or Organization Administrator. See [Roles reference](/docs/admin/roles-reference/).
- Have machines reporting for at least a few weeks. A goal set before you have a baseline is a guess. See [Add a machine](/docs/monitoring/add-an-asset/).

## Set the organization goal
The organization goal is the default every machine inherits, and it is the only goal the fleet **Utilization** tile uses.

1. Open the Assets page at `/assets`.
2. In the row of tiles across the top of the page, select the target icon in the top right corner of the **Utilization** tile, tooltipped **Adjust OEE Goal**. Selecting the percentage itself opens the same dialog.
3. In **Set OEE Goal**, type your target under **Set Organization Utilization / OEE Goal**. Enter a whole percentage, for example `62`, not `0.62`.
4. Select **Set**.

IoTFlows confirms with "Organization OEE Goal Updated" and recolors the page. The goal belongs to the organization, so every member sees the new number on their next load.

![The Set OEE Goal dialog, headed Set Organization Utilization / OEE Goal, with a large percentage field reading 62 next to a percent sign, and Cancel and Set buttons along the bottom](/images/monitoring/mon-goal-01.webp)

*The Set OEE Goal dialog, reached from the Utilization tile on the Assets page. Set the organization number from your own baseline, not from an industry figure.*

## Set a goal for one machine
**You do not need a per-machine goal for every asset.** Set one only where a machine's realistic ceiling genuinely differs from the plant's:

- A machine that runs two hours a day by design, such as a sample press or a deburring cell.
- A machine whose work is set-up heavy, where cutting time is a small share of the shift.
- A machine that waits on an upstream cell and can never run more than that cell allows.

Everywhere else, leave the organization goal in place. A fleet where every machine carries its own goal stops being comparable, because a green gauge no longer means the same thing on two cards.

1. Open the machine at `/assets/selected-asset/:id`. See [Inspect a single machine](/docs/monitoring/asset-detail/#open).
2. Select the **Uptime** gauge in the header. On a phone the gauge carries the hint "Tap to set Uptime goal".
3. Turn on **Set Custom Utilization / OEE Goal**. **Custom Goal for Machine** on the right becomes editable and **Default Organization Goal** on the left dims.
4. Type the percentage for this machine.
5. Select **Set**.

IoTFlows confirms with "Asset OEE Goal Updated". This machine's gauges recolor immediately and no other machine changes.

To put the machine back on the plant's number, open the same dialog, turn **Set Custom Utilization / OEE Goal** off, and select **Set**. The custom goal is cleared rather than remembered, so switching back later means typing it again.

> **Note:**
> **Why is the left-hand field editable?** **Default Organization Goal** is the organization's number, shown beside the custom one so you can see what this machine is departing from. Set the organization goal from the **Utilization** tile on the Assets page instead, where the dialog names what you are changing and the fleet figure is on screen next to it.

![The Set OEE Goal dialog opened from a machine, with the Set Custom Utilization / OEE Goal switch on. Two percentage fields sit side by side: Default Organization Goal reading 62 and dimmed on the left, Custom Goal for Machine reading 45 and active on the right](/images/monitoring/mon-goal-02.webp)

*The same dialog opened from a machine's Uptime gauge, with Set Custom Utilization / OEE Goal turned on: the organization's 62% on the left, this machine's 45% on the right.*

## Where the goal appears
Every surface below colors a percentage against a goal. Only one of them uses the organization's.

| Surface | Uses organization goal | Uses machine goal |
|---|---|---|
| **Utilization** tile at the top of the Assets page | Yes | No |
| **Uptime** gauge on a machine card, in every card view | No | Yes |
| **Utilization** column in list view | No | Yes |
| Parts and cycle-time gauges on a machine card | No | Yes |
| **Uptime** gauge in a machine page header | No | Yes |
| Header gauge in Operator View | No | Yes |
| Progress and cycle gauges on Shift Production | No | Yes |
| Machine cards and rows on a phone | No | Yes |

"Machine goal" means the machine's own goal where you have set one, and the organization goal everywhere else. In a plant that has never set a per-machine goal, every row in that table resolves to the same number.

**The coloring is binary.** At or above the goal a gauge is green; below it, red. There is no orange.

Orange on the Assets page is a downtime threshold, a duration rather than a percentage, and it is unrelated to the goal. See [Set status colors and downtime thresholds](/docs/monitoring/status-colors/).

**The goal also colors production, not just uptime.** The parts gauge compares parts made against what the ideal cycle time implies for the period you are viewing, then colors that percentage against the same OEE goal. Raising the organization goal from 60% to 80% turns some parts gauges red without anything changing on the floor.

The ideal cycle time behind that comparison is set per operation. See [Set cycle times and downtime filters](/docs/production/cycle-times-and-filters/).

![Two machine cards side by side. The left card, Doosan 2600, has an Uptime gauge reading 13% in red with the goal marker well above the filled arc; the right card, Epoxy granite VMC, has an Uptime gauge reading 98% in green with the goal marker below the filled arc](/images/monitoring/mon-goal-03.webp)

*Two machine cards side by side: the Uptime gauge is green on the machine at or above its goal and red on the machine below it.*

## The goal and the window you are viewing
A *window* is the period selected at the top of the page: a shift, a day, or a custom range. Every surface in the table reports the window you have selected. The goal itself is one percentage and does not move with it; what moves is the figure it is compared against.

**That figure is computed across the whole window, not averaged per shift.** A machine that ran 90% on first shift and 30% on second, both shifts the same length, reads 60% for the day. It does not report that one shift met the goal and one missed it.

A custom range covering three shifts totals running and stopped time across all three and divides once. So a goal that looks like it is being applied to the wrong period is a window problem, not a goal problem. Check the shift and date selectors before you change the number, see [Choose the window](/docs/monitoring/assets-overview/#window).

## Choose a number
**Set the first goal from your own baseline, not from an industry number.** A plant reading 48% that sets a goal of 85% has told every operator the board is fiction, and a board nobody believes is a board nobody reads.

1. Open the Advanced Report over the last complete quarter. See [Build a utilization report](/docs/monitoring/advanced-report/).
2. Read the organization's utilization for that period. That figure is your baseline.
3. Set the goal a few points above it. A plant at 48% sets 55%, not 85%.
4. Leave it alone for a quarter, then move it when the plant moves.

Per-machine goals follow the same rule against that machine's own history rather than the plant's. The Advanced Report breaks the period down by machine, so read that machine's row and set its goal from there.

## When a change does not save
A failed save shows the message the server returned, or the generic "Something went wrong" toast, and the dialog stays open with your number still in it. Nothing was written.

Reopen the dialog and read the goal back before assuming the change took. See [Troubleshoot wrong utilization or OEE](/docs/monitoring/troubleshoot-monitoring/).

## See also
- [Track production against shift goals](/docs/production/shift-production/)
- [Set cycle times and downtime filters](/docs/production/cycle-times-and-filters/)
- [How each metric is calculated](/docs/monitoring/metrics-reference/#uptime)
- [Build a utilization report](/docs/monitoring/advanced-report/)
- [Set status colors and downtime thresholds](/docs/monitoring/status-colors/)