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# 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.

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## Configuration

When an Area is selected on the OEE Sites page, the right-hand pane shows a single **Area** tab with two fields:

| Field           | Required | Notes                                                                                                    |
| --------------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **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.

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## 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.

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## Creating, renaming, deleting

See [Site Structure](/management-portal/oee/sites/site-structure.md). Areas can only be added under a Site, and they can only contain Equipment.

{% hint style="warning" %}
**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).
{% endhint %}