OEE INTEGRATION – ELIMINATING MANUAL DATA ENTRY!
Many of our clients require OEE as a process performance measure. We implement this as a function of our TPM deployments or simply to understand process performance at the machine level. As many of you may have experienced, the requirement of manual data collection, converting that to a spreadsheet, then calculating OEE can be labor intensive and therefore is difficult to sustain.
ALIGNMENT AND FOCUS TO SOLVE THE RIGHT PROBLEMS
“If you try to do everything at once, you will likely accomplish nothing at all.” – I tell this to my teams to get them to understand that we must focus our limited resources to the area of greatest need. We identify the areas of greatest need by measuring key performance indicators (KPI’s) throughout the […]
Alignment and Focus to Solve the Right Problems
“If you try to do everything at once, you will likely accomplish nothing at all.” – I tell this to my teams to get them to understand that we must focus our limited resources to the area of greatest need. We identify the areas of greatest need by measuring key performance indicators (KPI’s) throughout the […]
OEE Integration – Eliminating Manual Data Entry!
OEE, yes we need it… Many of our clients require OEE as a process performance measure. We implement this as a function of our TPM deployments or simply to understand process performance at the machine level. As many of you may have experienced, the requirement of manual data collection, converting that to a spreadsheet, then calculating […]
Sustaining Performance without Hovering
Sustaining Performance without Hovering As a consultant, I am constantly challenged with providing sustainable process improvement performance. You may have heard of the “Hawthorne Effect”, an experiment with one interpretation being: people perform better when they are aware they are being observed. Knowing this, we can leverage several simple tactics to sustain this effect without […]
Developing a Roll-out Strategy for OEE Implementation
Developing a roll-out strategy for any kaikaku (transformative) level initiative may seem like a difficult task. There is a visual method that I have used over the years that lets me put the pieces on the paper (PowerPoint) and move them around to see if it makes sense. Depending upon the situation you are in […]
OEE Metric Boards for Visibility to Machine Process Health
Did you know Advanced Process Optimization, Inc. can help you create and deploy Metrics boards to manage process performance such as #OEE? OEE can be tricky to deploy if you haven’t done it before. It is important to use this performance measure and benchmarking Key Performance Indicator (KPI) honestly and consistently throughout your organization. Like […]
How Can Standard Work Instructions Help Our Business Processes?
At a minimum we must capture the current best practice in a document. Why? It serves to provide a base understanding of the process. It operationalizes “tribal knowledge”. It can be used as a training document. It removes speculation and sets the expectation for process execution. It removes variation from the process inputs and outputs. […]