Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is well known as one of the tools available to manufacturing companies for improving operational efficiency and is one of the key methods of driving costs down.
Improving OEE was high on the agenda at Weetabix but manual methods of recording the data needed to calculate OEE were not satisfactory.
The management team at Weetabix needed to find an efficient method of recording the three metrics used in the calculation of OEE:
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Quality - the percentage of rejected items
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Line Availability - measurement of downtime
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Throughput - how many being produced compared to maximum throughput
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