On the relationship between human factor and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE): An analysis through the adoption of analytic hierarchy process and ISO 22400

Luozzo, Sebastiano Di; Starnoni, Fiorenza; Schiraldi, Massimiliano Maria

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“…In OM, the exact calculations and calculation scheme that depend on the context have held a strong focus, for instance, for capital-intensive industries (e.g., Jeong & Phillips, 2021), the introduction of OEE extensions such as material indicators (Braglia et al, 2019) for cumulating the OEE on the factory level (Muthiah & Huang, 2007) and multistage calculation at the equipment, operations and business levels (Muchiri & Pintelon, 2008). Recent studies have increasingly started to discover the interrelationship between the human factor and OEE (Luozzo et al, 2023).…”

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Managing the Interrelationships Between Manufacturing System Elements for Productivity Improvement in the Factory

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For manufacturers, productivity improvements are essential. Understanding how to improve productivity is fundamental for gaining a strong competitive position with sustainable growth and ensuring the survival of the business. Productivity is key, and it is essential that we understand how managers influence improvements as they intertwine numerous talents and processes to build the ‘DNA’ of a factory. Productivity science has been a key aspect of operations management research since the 1980s, and productivity differs across factories. Many pragmatic and empirical reasons have been highlighted and managers are familiar with them, but the managers know less about how they work together and literature barely touches on the impact of organic management as it relates to the identification and mitigation of barriers that appear at multiple stages in improving productivity. A systems perspective on improving productivity in the factory is widely neglected in operations management. Organisational studies and systems theory can help in understanding how success can arise from less-understood management practices and methods, but fragmented knowledge has led to confusion and disagreement over the various manufacturing system elements and their interrelationships in productivity improvement. Thus, manifold manufacturing system elements, including technical resources like machines, human resources with their social needs, and management control systems or environmental elements like labour market regulations, must be considered in managers’ orchestration of productivity improvement. The many attributes of manufacturing organisations and their elements are quite broad in scope, and their interrelationships are complex. Highlighting them in a way that deconflicts and facilitates intricate activities would benefit continuous productivity improvement. To achieve this, we must answer the question, ‘How do managers manage manufacturing system elements and their interrelationships to improve productivity?’ Several aspects of systems theory relate to this question, and three of the articles in this dissertation address these. The first article, ‘Managing productivity improvement in a complex manufacturing world: What we know from 40 years of OM literature’, illuminates and organises various productivity improvement options and identifies the resulting complexities faced by managers. It is a systematic literature review that applies contingency systems view to identify factories’ system elements and investigate their effects and the interrelationships involved. The second article, ‘Productivity improvement and multiple management controls: Evidence from a manufacturing firm’, has a single case design that follows an abductive approach. The actions of managers and their management mechanisms were investigated by applying the lens of multiple management control systems. In the third article, ‘Exploring the control problems and the interplay of management control systems for productivity outcome on the assembly line’, the management control systems theory was used to examine the control problems managers apply to manage their teams on shop floors for productivity outcomes. The author’s full-time presence at the case firm allowed for deep insights that would otherwise have been inaccessible. This article-based dissertation investigates how managers in factories, the unit of analysis, engage in the orchestration of the many interrelationships among manufacturing elements as they pursue productivity improvements, which is the phenomenon researched. This dissertation provides a novel systems view of productivity management at factories and therewith an opportunity to gain deeper insights into the barriers hindering productivity improvement. It conveys a new understanding that productivity management must be understood as a multi-dimensional responsibility of managers in the manufacturing system involving highly individual decision-making opportunities, resulting in differentiated actions and tasks. Five different overall types of system elements are identified and three different dimensions of interrelationships between them are investigated, providing the basis for specific managerial tasks, which are described for each dimension. Further, this dissertation describes the heterogeneity of complexity in relations to productivity improvement in the factory. On the one hand, the findings suggest that complexity is high through the manifold options to improve productivity and interrelationships between resources to control. On the other hand, the complexity can be diverse, for instance as shop floor managers face few control problems but each of them requiring high social interaction with the team. It highlights a different understanding of middle managers’ roles as determined by day-by-day management as they continuously drive improvement activities. For practitioners, the findings provide a catalogue of 83 elements structured into nine themes as practical options managers can draw on to improve the productivity outcomes of their factory floors. Above this, it provides specific guidance how to handle these many options to improve and many examples of tasks how to overcome and mitigate conflicts between resource elements for productivity improvement.

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Integrating human factors into the distribution model of goods and fast-moving consumer goods for effective inventory control

Ogbeyemi,

Zhang

2024

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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Multiple factors contribute to the occurrences of disruptions in workflow management within the e-commerce system that focuses on the distribution of goods and other fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). These disruptions have particularly affected and increased lead times and caused frequent shipment delays. The causes of these disruptions, especially in the context of distribution of goods and FMCG towards inventory control, have been widely speculated upon in recent years. Given the recent interruptions, the study presented in this paper used a methodology called statistical model analysis (SMA) to study the impact of human factors (HFs) on the system performance in a warehouse distribution system. A case study was taken on a particular company called ABC and XYZ to model the impact of some specific HF such as job fatigue, and job rotation to name a few and to uncover the underlying reasons behind the ongoing disruptions within the distribution system. Specifically, the result of this study aims to provide a data-driven understanding of these issues and one of the contributions of this study is to enhance our understanding of the significance of these HFs, rather than focusing on the equipment and materials as seen in prior research. Through this data-based approach study, stakeholders in operations management, e-commerce, and the supply chain system would be well-informed in many ways to resolve the challenges faced by humans in the system towards enhancing their overall system performance.

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Development and Application of a Safety-Related Control System Implementing a Safety Function for a CNC Milling Machine

Brtiš,

Ždánsky,

Hrbček

et al. 2024

Electronics

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The safety of small CNC (Computer Numerical Control) milling machines is typically ensured through organizational measures. However, when such a CNC milling machine is used in a manner that may involve contact with untrained individuals or children (e.g., for demonstration purposes), it becomes essential to ensure safety through appropriate technical measures. The required safety can be achieved by implementing safety functions to mitigate identified hazards. This paper addresses the design and application of a Safety-Related Control System (SRCS) that implements safety functions for a small CNC milling machine. A notable aspect of this implementation is that commonly available sensors (e.g., optical barriers) with a defined Safety Integrity Level (SIL) are unsuitable for small CNC milling machines in size, cost, and performance parameters. For instance, these sensors might fail to detect the entry of a child’s hand. Consequently, it was necessary to design suitable custom sensors for realizing an SRCS. The paper also demonstrates the achieved SIL for the implemented safety functions.

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On the relationship between human factor and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE): An analysis through the adoption of analytic hierarchy process and ISO 22400

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Managing the Interrelationships Between Manufacturing System Elements for Productivity Improvement in the Factory

Managing the Interrelationships Between Manufacturing System Elements for Productivity Improvement in the Factory

Integrating human factors into the distribution model of goods and fast-moving consumer goods for effective inventory control

Development and Application of a Safety-Related Control System Implementing a Safety Function for a CNC Milling Machine

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