Implementing OEE Data Collection in Your Production Facility
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) provides a single metric that measures the effectiveness of your company’s equipment. Without focusing on the reliability and performance, or rather utilizing your equipments OEE metric, the consequences can ranges from production losses to safety and environmental hazards.
To begin, OEE is defined as the product of three percentages, availability, performance, and quality. While exploiting a consistent OEE approach, the defined parameter can indentify downtime, setup, breakdown, quality and other indicators of poor performance, directing the attention of managers towards greater opportunities for improvement.
It’s important to understand though, getting results is not as automatic as computing your OEE metric. It’s up to the management team to act on the information provided. A variety of software packages are available that companies can integrate with their current management software, giving them the ability to automatically calculate their OEE metric, including its components and other efficiency indicators.
Tracking real-time OEE data figures regularly, will help managers and operators alike map cause-and-effect scenarios and detect the root causes of problems, potentially before they even occur.
Simply put, use OEE as an effective way to communicate the opportunities of improvement to everyone across your company.
