How does your Overall Equipment Effectiveness score?

One person calls it Overall Equipment Effectiveness, another says Overall Equipment Efficiency. The terminology remains the same and both people mean the same thing. The OEE, or the percentage that represents how your machinery actually runs compared to the highest achievable. Calculating the OEE is not high mathematics, but it does require knowledge. The question is: How does your Overall Equipment Effectiveness score? 

The white paper "OEE: Quality x Performance x Availability" describes the origin and purpose of the OEE in broad outline. Based on a practical example, the calculation to arrive at this percentage of OEE is explained. The OEE provides insight into how set goals can be achieved, because it brings Availability loss, Performance loss and Quality loss to the surface. This concerns the so-called 'Six Big Losses': Availability loss due to planned and unplanned stops, Performance loss due to minor stops and slow runs and Quality loss due to rejected products during start-up and rejected end products.

It is important to know that OEE itself does nothing, it is a measuring tool. It provides the operator with insights that optimise the production process. OEE helps to make decisions based on data instead of gut feeling. Based on some practical examples, the white paper shows how digitising OEE provides insights and what positive consequences this has.

Using the knowledge, skills and experience of the shop floor creates involvement and stimulates working more from a loss perspective and offering solutions to improve OEE. The white paper contains six tips to go for the most optimal OEE, which is not necessarily the highest achievable.

Download the white paper 'OEE: Quality x Performance x Availability' here