Everything you need to know about OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and best practices on how to implement OEE successfully in your company.
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April 10, 2023
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is one of the most frequently used terms on the shop floor. On the other hand, it brings questions as well: what is OEE? How does…
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August 16, 2023
In the manufacturing landscape, achieving optimal efficiency through digitalization is paramount. The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) system has become a vital tool for manufacturers in this pursuit. However, the effectiveness…
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June 15, 2023
Efficient manufacturing operations are central to a successful production company, and downtime is the sworn enemy. In manufacturing, downtime can be broadly categorized into two types: Planned Downtime and Unplanned…
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May 3, 2023
Companies often underestimate the cost and amount of downtime they experience, even though it greatly impacts the capacity of an entire shop floor. The accuracy of this estimation, of course,…
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October 5, 2022
The complexity of a busy factory shop floor is rather fascinating. It is a system of multiple moving parts, both human and machine, that is expected to turn material into…
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August 16, 2022
We often hear about “world-class OEE” and how it’s something that every manufacturing organization should aim for. But the reality is that many companies would be better off focusing on…
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October 13, 2020
We have already explained what is speed loss and how to measure it. In this article, we take a closer look at how manufacturers reduce speed loss to increase their…
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August 13, 2020
Speed loss in manufacturing has not been getting as much attention as downtime. It is often underestimated in factories and overlooked by management due to its hidden and complicated nature….
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May 27, 2020
While our OEE calculator helps you estimate your OEE, and our OEE software track and improve it, this article explains how to calculate OEE and its components in detail. We…
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May 27, 2020
The importance of OEE in manufacturing has steadily increased since its introduction with the TPM movement and its widespread adoption as a lean manufacturing tool. Today, OEE is the gold…
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April 22, 2020
At Evocon, we incorporate client feedback into the design and continuous improvement of our product. We also keep an open dialogue with our clients. This process recently uncovered an excellent…
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February 18, 2020
The Six Big Losses framework is a practical way to categorize equipment-related losses in manufacturing. It is a part of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodology and is aligned with OEE….
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August 1, 2019
The benefits of monitoring Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) have been known since Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) became a manufacturing buzz word in the 1980s. For those of us that are…
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January 17, 2019
Tracking Technical Availability (TA) or sometimes also called “Maintenance Availability,” is very useful in the context of OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) because it allows you to assess how well your…
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September 10, 2018
To quote Marshall McLuhan, the man who predicted the Internet: “We shape our tools, and afterwards the tools shape us”. When using a downtime tracking system to monitor machine downtime,…
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