Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Part 4 of 4 Part Blog Now that you know how to calculate OEE, what do you do with it? How is it useful? What is a good number? Knowing your OEE helps you understand your manufacturing health, know when to take on additional orders, when to make new equipment acquisitions, […]
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Part 3 of 4 Part Blog Now that we understand what OEE is and the contributing factors to its loss; how does operator training and maintenance really improve your numbers? Again, we look to the equation, OEE = Availability x Productivity x Quality, then break it down from there. AVAILABILITY, […]
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Part 2 of 4 Part Blog Now that we understand what OEE is, how do you improve it as it relates to vertical packaging? The most simplistic way to look at this, is to consider the equation, OEE = Availability x Productivity x Quality, then break it down from there. AVAILABILITY, […]
OEE Part 1 of 4 Part Blog The term OEE is being thrown around a lot lately; so what is it exactly? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a concept used in lean manufacturing implementation. At a very basic level OEE can be measured using the following equation: OEE = Availability X Productivity X Quality or […]