Overall Equipment Effectiveness [OEE]

• INVESTING IN AUTOMATION LEADS TO LASTING BENEFITS!!
• If you look at a true definition of lean, it is basically a manufacturing concept that's designed to provide an optimum framework for efficient and competitive production. What is better than automation to provide that? There isn't anything really.
• The issue is how you efficiently incorporate automation to maximize lean production in a lean environment and that goes back to your Overall Equipment Effectiveness [OEE] return on investment and how to calculate your efficiencies and everything related to the maximization of automation. The use of OEE benchmarks is becoming much more popular, as companies attempt to maximize manufacturing processes to become more efficient. There are companies that ask us to incorporate the OEE value calculation in our process.
• An OEE of 85 per cent is recognized as world-class, however the worldwide average for manufacturing plants is around 60 per cent.
• Finding the causes can be achieved by recording machine and operating data, For example;  Scada systems can quickly collect and analyze data and can be equipped with an extra downtime analysis tool to calculate and distribute OEE data.
• With downtime analysis, the time model of the production equipment is determined from the production times, maintenance times and downtimes.
  A Scada system equipped with a downtime analysis tool could pay for itself in as little as six months.