Operational Efficiency Helps Gain 20% Capacity

In today's competitive market place with growing pressure for higher profits and lower costs, every manufacturing company wants to improve its shop-floor productivity, performance and quality.

In today's competitive market place with growing pressure for higher profits and lower costs, every manufacturing company wants to improve its shop-floor productivity, performance and quality.

That is according to Gemba Solutions, which said that Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is important in companies achieving their objectives.

OEE is a formula that takes each of those operational factors in to account, and provides a single benchmark measurement for a company's production process.

The OEE figure helps to highlight production bottlenecks, allowing users to identify production losers, drive down wastage levels and increase profits.

Gemba believes that OEE is a core component of a company's LEAN manufacturing system and everyone in an operation can be empowered with the data, from the machine operator to the managing director.

The company said that OEE is rapidly becoming the manufacturing world's leading key performance indicator (KPI) and can be applied to virtually any type or size of manufacturing facility.

Gemba Solutions supplies OEE-related products and offers free educational sessions at company's sites.

Attendees will learn about the basic concepts and benefits of OEE and see how it can be successfully and affordably implemented.

End-user case studies also illustrate how OEE has been used to generate capacity gains of 20 per cent in a single month, added the company.

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