Editor’s note: This is part two of a four-part series on understanding and implementing overall equipment effectiveness strategy. This series is sponsored by SafetyChain Software. When it comes to ...

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is widely accepted in the manufacturing industry as a ‘must-have’ for operational effectiveness and improvement. It’s a crucial element for improving ...

Few argue about the value of production insights delivered by the well-known OEE calculation. In essence, OEE is a great tool to help understand how well a line is running. This metric can be used to ...

Traditional OEE often masks micro-level inefficiencies that accumulate into major production losses. Micro OEE (mOEE) measures efficiency at the smallest production steps, enabling precise ...

Mr. Peterson is vice president, CNC business at GE Fanuc Automation Americas Inc. in Charlottesville, Va. The three components of OEE each contain three types of losses. The combination of OEE and Six ...