Work
OEE Factory Automation — Senior UX/UI & Scrum Master
Real-time visibility for global pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Business Challenge
Boehringer’s manufacturing teams across global sites were running on siloed systems — each factory had its own tools, its own data format, and sometimes its own decade of technology. Operators lacked real-time visibility into equipment performance, and onboarding new machines took over 2 days per unit depending on age, vendor, or incompatible protocols.
The challenge: create a unified OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) system that worked across plants in Greece, Frankfurt, Brazil, and the US, regardless of machine age or data structure.
Approach
As Senior UX/UI and Scrum Master, I worked with engineers, automation experts, and operations leads to map current workflows, pain points, and the gaps between “how things should work” and “how things were actually working.”
I designed a real-time dashboard for operators to track equipment performance, identify issues before they escalated, and compare performance across sites.
A key part of the solution was a standardized machine onboarding interface, designed to translate different machine languages into a single, usable flow. This experience reduced onboarding from 2+ days to 2.5 hours, regardless of the factory’s legacy systems.
Outcome
• +35% operator productivity across early-adopter sites
• 74% faster machine onboarding
• A standardized system now planned for global scale
• A UI that actually made sense to operators, not just engineers
This was one of those rare enterprise projects where UX didn’t just “make things prettier” — it changed the way global teams worked.