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News Release from: Gemba Solutions | Subject: OEEIMPACT. software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2005
Simplifying data entry and graphic
report making
When implementing an Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) campaign, why not use Excel? It's simple to enter data and generate graphical reports. Isn't it?
When implementing an Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) campaign, why not use Excel? It's simple to enter data and generate graphical reports Isn't it? OEE is effectively a simple and powerful manufacturing efficiency calculation that takes into account your capacity, performance and quality: OEE = performance x availability x quality - giving you a single figure as a plant KPI
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Are you spending hours entering information into Excel for OEE? For example, you have 50 machines and want to keep at least 12 months of information available including: * Individual fault reasons.
* Multiple reject counts and reasons.
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* Information stored against shifts.
* Log figures for product performance.
You soon start to build up a very large spreadsheet.
Then you need to: * Create reports that can be flexible.
* Query over periods, shifts and products and machines.
You may wish to report on OEE, downtime (planned and unplanned), wastage, production figures etc, and display as trend charts, bar graphs, grid displays, production summaries etc You see the picture.
You now have a very complex spreadsheet that is becoming a nightmare to take care of.
The management of an Excel spreadsheet system can take 1-2 days a week - can you afford to be this inefficient? Gemba Solutions have a powerful, effective solution - OEEIMPACT.
With this software, you can start with a manual entry solution and move onto real-time plant connected systems.
OEEIMPACT provides over 200 different manufacturing efficiency reports, some of which are based on OEE.
The information you collect allows a host of other performance measures to be generated and acted on: * Set-up time campaigns.
* Reject reason identification (More than just first time right).
* Group stoppages by category (set-up, maintenance, production, material failure etc).
* Mean time between failures.
* Shift performance comparisons.
* Product performance comparisons.
Manufactured by Gemba Solutions, OEEIMPACT is priced to make your decision simple.
It's flexible, expandable, maintained and will not break the budget.
When you are sitting in front of your PC getting frustrated, remember there is a solution allowing you to excel.
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