Monday 20 February 2017

Why OEE is important and its benefits

OEE stands for overall equipment effectiveness; well this is just a measurement to calculate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the manufacturing process. It helps the organization by providing a management tool and evaluates the manufacturing process.  The OEE for operators books are also available in the market for in depth knowledge.
Many other concepts are well explained in depth in the books like shopfloor series books. But the Industrial management books in India, sums up everything of how to manage your operations and organizations with efficiency.
The OEE calculates and is been evaluated on three different metrics and they are-
  • Availability
  • Performance
  • Quality
Why do we choose or adapt OEE measurement for our organization?
This measurement helps us to focus on different things in the manufacturing of organizations operations.  The OEE helps the operation department to quickly solve all the problems related to the organization
OEE helps the organization to find what is the root cause of the problems that are occurring and recurring in the organization, OEE defines that the biggest problem in the organization which leads to many other problem is nothing but lack of proper information.  With the help of this measurement you can analyze the end results of all the activities, make sure you have detailed information about the end result.
Usually the problems occur in any organizations are mainly because of the sudden break down of the machinery.
The OEE offers multiplicity of all the influences and analyzes every step and see how many of them trigger the production shop.
If you adopt OEE for your organization, it will help you to find out the root cause and problem that your organization is facing on daily basis.
Working on the root cause helps the organization to lead as they are not wasting their time on any other activity but only resolving the main issue; basically they help the organization in concentrating efforts where it is really needed.
OEE is a tool which will help your organization to resolve about 90 percent of their problems instantly but focusing on 10 percent of the problem.

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