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World Class Manufacturing companies use OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) as a method of identifying opportunities that will result in reduced production losses and deliver increased capacity using the same resources.
Fundamentally, OEE is a performance metric compiled from data on Machine (or Process) Availability, Performance Efficiency and Rate of Quality that is collected.
The most successful deployments of OEE solutions are when the organisation is focused on delivery Operational Excellence throughout the organisation with both real-time performance monitoring combined with medium and longer term project improvement initatives.
Good OEE deployment ensures that the improvement initiatives undertaken will deliver real and measureable return on investment for the organisation.
Companies who use OEE as a metric also capture reasons for downtime (due to machine conditions, material status, production personnel or quality issues) and can encompass the individual machine level, a line or cell level, or the entire plant. At the plant level, OEE metrics can be correlated with other plant metrics to provide Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
With enterprise level technologies managers can monitor OEE plant metrics and drill down to find root causes of problems, getting minute-by-minute updates to enable real-time process improvement.
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