On the factory floor, Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a powerful improvement tool, one furthermore, which delivers improvements far beyond machine utilisation. Malcolm Wheatley explains.
To its many adherents, the charm of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as an improvement metric is its sheer uncompromising starkness. Simply put, work out the theoretical maximum output from a piece of equipment or production line, and then express the actual output as a percentage of that theoretically achievable output. The beauty of the calculation…
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