Monday, March 2, 2009

Track productivity losses

OEE or Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a lean metric that allows you to track the
loss of production due to equipment downtime. An equipment that is not running or is
producing defects or reworking parts already made causes losses on the plant floor.
Losses are due to...
- Poor Quality of parts made (defective parts that have to reworked or scrapped)
- Performance losses (Parts produced or time the equipment runs in a time period)
- Availability (time for which the equipment can run)

Tracking OEE allows floor personnel to determine loss of production due to equipment.
OEE also helps plan for maintenance - planned and preventive.
If used right OEE can guide toward better equipment maintenance.
This may help track tool wear and timely replacements may increase equipment life.
Use SYBEQ's OEE calculator to track OEE of your equipment.

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