Focused improvement for OEE

Posted on 15 Dec 2014 by Jonny Williamson

Overall Equipment Effectiveness tells you the size of the opportunity. But only management can deliver on that promise, finds IT Contributing Editor Malcolm Wheatley.

Go back a few years, and a concept known as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) was all the rage as a factory-floor improvement tool. Simply put, it involved working out the theoretical maximum output from a piece of equipment or production line, and then expressing the actual output produced from it as a percentage of that…

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