The oee approach
Having recognised the common themes, oee has developed a structured approach to asset improvement in the manufacturing sector.
- Understand a business's commercial drivers
- Identify critical plants and processes
- Rigorously identify business benefit or opportunity
- Make performance transparent - using the OEE measure
- Apply appropriate improvement tools
- Effective roll-out to maximise business returns
- Demonstrate value through transparent costs and benefit
The approach involves:
- Minimal if any capital investment required
- No major process redesign or re-engineering
- Closely supporting first line managers and team leaders to make the changes
- Doing operational improvement activities ‘with them’ not ‘to them’
- Embedding a Continuous Improvement (C.I.) culture into the team structure
We know how to:
- Structure effective asset improvement programmes
- Develop appropriate communication plans
- Avoid common pitfalls
- Standardise and scale-up activity
- Ensure the customer becomes self-sufficient in our tools and techniques
- Effectively use analytical techniques to support improvements and quantify risks
In terms of the OEE measure, we know:
- Where to apply it and where not to
- How to do effective data collection
- How to integrate OEE with other KPIs and the MIS
- How to link the measure to other tools such as modelling, planning, design and risk assessment
