Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Powerful Productivity Metric
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a simple and powerful indication of resource effectiveness. OEE is the ratio between ”value adding time” (what customers will pay for) and the actual total time taken (what the manufacturer pays for). The purpose of OEE is to measure the productivity improvement potential of a production process using a single metric and to help minimise waste – the core objectives of Lean Manufacturing. OEE can be used to identify overall losses, and losses in these specific areas. Once a loss has been identified appropriate action can be taken to reduce the loss.
Understanding OEE and how to use it effectively
In this webinar recording, we talk you through the theory of Overall Equipment Effectiveness to help your understanding and ability to use it as an effective tool for improving manufacturing productivity.
Generating a standard measurement that can be used for benchmarking and analysis is an essential tool for any business. Recording data manually is a labour intensive and time-consuming activity. Seiki OEE calculations are based on access to logged records obtained from the machine tool to provide live and accurate data. This means that small events that are often missed or recorded inaccurately are taken into account, allowing you to base decisions on factual and complete information. Real-time OEE metrics are easy to calculate for fast production throughput, such as canning, packaging, PCBs.
OEE for Discrete Manufacturing
Whilst fully servicing the needs of process manufacturing, we’ve designed our OEE with the challenges of discrete manufacturing specifically in mind, i.e. when batch sizes are small, have long cycle times or you’re running diverse products with differing cycle times. To accommodate this level of flexibility and complexity, and still achieve an accurate measure of your OEE, you need to have all the underlying data for each factor, part and resource. This is where the power of our integrated modules come into play.
