Glen Lawson was certain that additional automation technology would improve his plant’s throughput. As production manager at a new Salem, Ore., plant owned by SpaceKraft, an Indianapolis-based ...

Much has been written about Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) but it is too useful not to revisit some of the key points. OEE is a great way to see the impact of the 6 Big Losses, aka waste, the ...

You’re probably familiar with the term overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), but it means different things to different people. It’s often used interchangeably with factory information systems (FIS) ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) combines operations, maintenance, and quality measurements in a single key performance indicator and is an objective way of collecting the lifecycle performance ...

Traditional OEE often masks micro-level inefficiencies that accumulate into major production losses. Micro OEE (mOEE) measures efficiency at the smallest production steps, enabling precise ...