An Observational Investigation of the Link Between OEE Measures in a Manufacturing Industry

In the perspective of recent development, the manufacturing industry needs to pick up their performance to carry on in the worldwide competition. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is the basis of Total Productive Maintenance and Lean Manufacturing strategies to undertake the unseen six big losses that hold back equipment and process efficiency. Overall equipment effectiveness plays a very important role where performance efficiency and quality of the product are significance to the organization. It is a metric which is used to point out how effectively and efficiently machines are in operation. Looking at it another way, OEE is a simple but a powerful tool for measurement of the efficiency and effectiveness of single equipment or of an entire manufacturing unit consisting of a number of individual equipment. In this effort, the paper presents a broad approach to measure overall equipment effectiveness for kneader buss mixer for an Aluminium producing plant and explain how the individual performance indices are calculated. Monitoring of all the equipments which are significant using promising technology on a daily basis and additional analysis using statistics can help us to take remedial actions on the shop floor and this may help in improving plant overall equipment effectiveness.