The Use and Abuse of OEE
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is fast becoming a widely used measure for the manufacturing industry, but it is also one of the more misunderstood and misused measures and causing much confusion...
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A Maintenance Miracle
Once again we are offering our highly successful Maintenance Miracle Kaizen event from March 29th through April 1st. For those of you not familiar with these autonomous maintenance events and how they might help you in your company, we thought we would give you some insight from a past event we held at Acushnet’s Ball Plant III.
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Quantum Leap Yield Improvement
Production Preparation Process (3P)—Milestone 13
In the highly competitive world of vinyl siding production, “process yield is king.” A fraction of a percentage point change in yield traditionally is very difficult to attain let alone sustain. So you can imagine what was going through one plant manager’s head when he got the news that yield had to improve 2.4% above last year’s performance.
Tag That Attitude!
We were recently contacted by one of our clients to convey how their TPM efforts were progressing… Can you pick out the most important thing?
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OEE – Learn How to Use It Right
Recently, our own Ellis New had an article on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) published in Industry Week’s on-line newsletter. The article looks at the use and misuse of this often misunderstood metric. Below is an excerpt from that article, to read the entire piece, click on the word MORE below.
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Engaging your Workforce
Operational excellence, continuous improvement, lean management—no matter what you call your pursuit of perfection, in order to sustain it employees have to be “engaged.
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Developing TPM
Absent TPM, the Lean Enterprise Doesn't Happen.
Developing a strategy to establish TPM – and integrate it as part of a lean transformation – begins with analyzing and understanding the key areas that need to be improved throughout your operations.
Lean Lessons At the Movies
Quoting movie dialog is a big thing in my family. I am not sure how it started, but we do it often. Last week at a SMED training session, an attendee was reeling off movie lines to his team members.
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The Improvement Strategy “Trinity”
In a memorable scene from the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” one of the bad guys challenges Indiana Jones to a sword fight. As the challenger brandishes his sword in preparation for battle, Indiana sizes him up for a moment, then just pulls out his gun and shoots him. Duel over.
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Invest for Success
I shared this experience with some of my contacts earlier this week, but wanted to post it here as well as it might be of use to some of our readers…
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