Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Most production managers are clear on the areas of major loss within their processes; however getting to the root cause of these issues and doing something about them can be far more challenging - particularly as equipment failure is just one category in the total profile of possible failures.

Calculating OEE (availability x performance x quality) to indicate the relative level of efficiency against the optimum that can be achieved, helps quantify all lost opportunity in the manufacturing processes.

The score that is achieved is of secondary importance to focusing on the improvements that need to be made to increase effectiveness. An integral component of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) framework, OEE has become the de facto manufacturing performance metric for manufacturer's intent on maximising their asset performance and operational efficiency.

OEE systems like Idhammar OEE, are powerful analysis tools that support and inform continuous improvement and operational excellence programmes.

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