OEE Fundamentals

The Six Big Losses framework is a practical way to categorise equipment-related losses in manufacturing. It is a part of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodology…

As Peter Drucker famously wrote, “what gets measured, gets managed”. Furthermore, to manage and begin improving manufacturing performance, you need a baseline and an OEE…

Your team has successfully navigated the terrain of understanding what OEE is and is getting live OEE data from your machines on the production floor.…

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…

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 quote Marshall McLuhan, the man who predicted the Internet: “We shape our tools, and afterwards the tools shape us”. When using a system or…

Before you start with machine downtime analysis it is important to have a system in place that automatically monitors when your machines are not working.…

Once you have installed a system that can automatically detect when your machines are down, you have two options. First is to limit the practice…