OEE stands for overall equipment effectiveness, a dimensionless parameter used to measure the efficiency of equipment, cells, production lines and even entire plants. More specifically, it is the ...

Grade school math teachers are fond of saying that numbers can’t lie. Maybe so, but they can be misleading. In the case of manufacturing, it is a common standard to measure plant productivity by ...

As with any metric, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)—the powerful core metric used in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)—can be misunderstood and misused. In fact, we see it grossly misused at ...