This research has the objective of improving indicators for evaluating losses of equipment. It also proposes a newly developed computing methodology for estimating the quantitative losses in monetary unit. The presented methodology is to calculate losses following overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) consisting of opportunity and production cost losses and also from cost of quality (COQ) approaches. This method eliminates some of OEE's weaknesses and expands scope from overall equipment cost loss (OECL). The proposed calculating methodology is demonstrated by applying to a real manufacturer of equipment. This newly improved model can prioritise problematic equipment more appropriately than OEE and OECL.Keywords: performance measurement; overall equipment effectiveness; overall equipment cost loss; cost of quality; total preventive maintenance 1. Introduction Nowadays, business organisations are confronted with a complex and competitive environment. This circumstance forces manufacturers to improve their quality, price and also delivery time in order to have an advantage over their competitors. In these circumstances, increased competiveness and demand stimulate manufacturers to increase production capacity by replacing human labour with automatic machines. Machines have greater reliability, capacity, and also lower error and operating costs, than humans. Nevertheless the advantages only arise when the machines perform with higher effectiveness and efficiency. Therefore to attain higher prosperity a management system is required and one of the management systems commonly used is total preventive maintenance (TPM). TPM is adopted in order to strengthen the manufacturing business performance and to achieve world-class performance (McKone et al. 2001, Swanson 2001. However, a management system necessarily requires an appropriate information system to evaluate operating performance. The information gathered from operating machines is crucial for sustaining organisations. Management levels are able to make better decisions from these and also manage their production systems more effectively and efficiently. Appropriate measurement is necessarily established for these purposes (Nachiappan and Anantharam 2001). Ericsson (1997) indicated that accurate equipment performance information is essential to the success and long-term effectiveness of TPM activities. One of the important and widely used metrics of performance in manufacturing is overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), especially for firms applying TPM. OEE is a valuable tool that can help management to unleash hidden capacity and therefore reduce overtime expenditure and allow deferral of major capital investment (Muchiri and Pintelon 2006). Furthermore, it is not only as an operational measure, but also as an indicator of process improvement activities within a manufacturing environment (Dal et al. 2000). OEE is a simple indicator but still comprehensive. Moreover, it is an effective way of analysing the efficiency of a single machine and also an integrated machi...