OEE stands for Overall Equipment Effectiveness. This is different from the efficiency of a machine which is Quantity produced in a certain time.OEE is a factor of the following elements shown below: Losses that reduce OEE: Losses that Impact [...]
Equipment failures and defects appear in two ways: as sporadic or chronic losses. Sporadic losses indicate sudden, often large deviations from the norm (current performance and quality levels). Chronic losses, on the other hand, indicate smaller, frequent deviations that gradually [...]
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a key measurement in the improvement approach called Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). Before you begin learning about OEE, it is useful to understand a little bit about TPM. TPM is a companywide approach for improving [...]
TPM means productive maintenance (activities in which all workers of a corporation are required to participate) and stands for total productive maintenance. T stands for "Total" P stands for "Productive" M stands for "Maintenance" Necessity of TPM and why TPM [...]
Planned Maintenance teams in TPM Program generally consists of team members from maintenance team where is Autonomous maintenance team have more of production team members as objective of autonomous maintenance is to create equipment competent operator. however to train [...]
Kobetsu Kaizen (Focused Improvement) is first Pillar of Total Productive Maintenance is used to address non equipment related losses and losses which can not be addressed by other pillars. Kobetsu Kaizen means Focused Improvement and uses the approach of Root [...]
In the world-class manufacturing companies there is one common denominator: a firm conviction that their major assets are their machines, equipment and processes, together with the people who operate and maintain them. The managers of these companies also recognize [...]
The velocity of production in a manufacturing organisation depends on the uptime of the machine and process capability. Hence, there is a need of a framework which could serve to prevent deterioration, and reduce frequency of maintenance. Total Productive [...]
TPM or total productivity maintenance is all about using the business resources like employees, process, and machines to improve production and quality. TPM aims to bring improvement using its 8 pillars mentioned below. Focused Improvement Autonomous maintenance Planned Maintenance [...]
