Areas
Areas group Equipment under a Site. They have no OEE configuration of their own — only a name and description.
An Area is a container that lives between a Site and its Equipment. Areas exist purely to organize equipment in a way that mirrors your physical layout — a packaging line, a CNC cell, a warehouse zone — and they have no OEE settings of their own.
Configuration
When an Area is selected on the OEE Sites page, the right-hand pane shows a single Area tab with two fields:
Area name
Yes
Display name.
Description
No
Free-text, multi-line. Useful for capturing the physical location, the line owner, or operational notes.
That’s the entire configuration surface. All OEE behavior — calculations, shifts, planned stops, stop causes, products — lives on the Equipment under the Area, not on the Area itself.
Why Areas exist
Areas exist to group Equipment under a Site so the tree mirrors how the plant is actually organized. Two practical effects:
Structure in the tree. The OEE Sites tree has three levels (Site → Area → Equipment) — without Areas, every Site would be a flat list of equipment, which doesn’t scale beyond a handful of machines.
Bulk operations on the tree. Renaming, deleting, or moving an Area applies to everything underneath it. Disabling OEE on every Equipment in an Area is a per-Equipment action — see the warning below.
Creating, renaming, deleting
See Site Structure. Areas can only be added under a Site, and they can only contain Equipment.
Deleting an Area removes every Equipment under it. The platform will not allow the deletion of an Area if any Equipment under it has OEE enabled — disable OEE on each Equipment first (Equipment tab → OEE Enabled off, save).
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