What is OEE?

Advantages of OEE

1. Most straightforward concept: OEE is very simple and easy to learn. Organizations can start measuring OEE with just pencil and paper. The ability to understand, collect data and compute values is effortless.
2. Powerful application: OEE trend gives compelling insights into the effectiveness of operations and can lead to an identification of the underlying problems, often hitherto unknown.
3. Extensible: OEE can be measured for a single piece of equipment or a production line or an entire plant. The concept is extensible across a group of assets. It’s independent of size and scale of operations, and thus can be rolled out for an organization of any size.
4. Increased process quality: Defective products cause loss of revenue, reputation, and time and have costs associated with their recall and rework. Identification and avoidance of root cause analysis (Why why analysis) that impact quality can save precious time, effort and money.
5. Bringing people together in plant operations: With OEE as the common goal, the different stakeholders in the plant operations (production, maintenance, cost accountants) can all be brought together with a single area of focus – continuous improvement.
6. Reduce repair costs and downtime: Analysis of OEE leads to avoiding losses and the production team can embark on tasks that can increase equipment uptime and asset life.

How to Implement OEE?

1. Define: Define the objectives and scope. Select the pilot equipment. Identify the points of measurement and assign ownership.
2. Train: Build the team and train them on the goals, process, data collection, computation, analysis, and improvements.
3. Organize: Organize the collection of data from the different sources in the set OEE tracking software frequency and enable proper record keeping.
4. Compute: Compute Availability, Performance, Quality and Overall Equipment Effectiveness at the specified instances. Prepare the charts and graphs to show the overall trends.
5. Analyse & Act: As a team, analyze the trends and identify the losses that inhibit the operations from achieving their full potential. Devise an action plan to tackle the opportunities for improvement.
6. Institutionalize: Institutionalize the Overall Equipment Effectiveness culture across the larger organization. Enable interactions across teams for learning from each other.
7. Improve: Rinse and Repeat the process for continuous improvement.

Kotetsu Kaizen pillar of TPM places a lot of emphasis on improving OEE and OEE is often used as a measure of the success of TPM implementation. Calculation of OEE, charting of trends and analysis were all manually done earlier and due to the intensive calculations, it was done post facto. With the proliferation of affordable software, computations are automated now, and OEE availability is in real-time. Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) can capture the data directly from the equipment and other production planning systems and as well can take manual inputs to compute dynamically.

Why is MaintWiz ideal for you?                    

MaintWiz is a new age industry 4.0 CMMS platform that helps you to digitize your maintenance operations and assist you with powerful tools to compute Overall Equipment Effectiveness, visualize trends, analyze losses, action improvements and institutionalize process excellence.

MaintWiz is a Simple, Easy-to-use, Integrated, Cost effective and Scalable CMMS Software solution. It is the ideal solution for organizations that want to measure and improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness / pursue TPM Excellence, Business benefits include:

1. Simple to Use:

MaintWiz is easy to roll out, access and update. Provides intuitive screens that facilitate natural learning and increase user engagement.

2. Complex Calculations:

MaintWiz supports a flexible asset hierarchy to mimic your operational floor and can calculate OEE for not just the equipment, but can also for the production line and plant, often adjusting for various complexities involving standby machines and differential shifts.

3. Multi-Site Support:

MaintWiz is offered as a Software-as-a-Service solution and thus has been designed to support multiple sites. It enables OEE tracking and compares the OEE adoption and effectiveness across various locations.

4. Data Collection:

MaintWiz supports direct data capture from electronic data sources (sensors, SCADA or Enterprise Systems) or can allow direct data entry via excel uploads. MaintWiz Mobile app can swipe QR codes to enable direct data entry with minimal effort, right at the point of work.

5. Interactive Reports:

Presents interactive reports to zoom in for a specified time or clicks to drill down and analyze the underlying data. Supports dashboards and scorecards to show progress.

6. Supporting Tools:

It also provides supporting tools for analysis, inferences, learning and record keeping, thus enabling your continuous improvement journey.

7. TPM Certification:

MaintWiz presents robust features to support and achieve TPM Excellence.

With MaintWiz there are no entry or exit costs.  It’s offered on a monthly subscription basis. Excel templates-based data upload enables you to start quickly on Day 1. Experience the complete power with Zero Capital Investments and Zero Implementation Time.