Why OEE?
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness [OEE] is widely recognised as the benchmark to assess how well equipment is running against an ‘ideal' plant - but how confident can you be in setting the factors that define the ‘ideal' plant?
To drive efficiency improvements in your organisation you need to be able to create a focus on continuous improvement. This focus then has to become part of the culture of the company and be driven from a repeatable KPI.
OEE works by providing critical information including:
- Downtime
- Change-Over's
- Line Speed
- Start-Ups
- Quality and Waste
- Bottlenecks
Customers are constantly looking to their suppliers for a reduction in costs or extra capacity at peak trading times which can only be achieved by removing waste from the process, realising efficiency gains and releasing hidden additional capacity.
"Using data to drive continuous improvement"
OEE is a data driven methodology and key to making improvements as part of a Lean Manufacturing / Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) programme. Although it has become the accepted KPI for benchmarking equipment and process efficiency many programmes fail as they rely on manual data entry and processing which is often inconsistent and, over time, becomes a burden on the company.
"Transfers the focus on to improvements and not the data collection"
OEE information often needs to be combined and compared with other business drivers such as energy usage and product costs. Our unique web based reporting tools enable users to drill down and find the real issues while seeing how they affect other key business drivers.
EmsPT can provide an OEE Software solution that uses your existing automation equipment or, if necessary, our own data collection hardware to automate this process and provide the data in real-time and historically.
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