Simple and Cost Effective System for Overall Equipment Efficiency Measurement

Abstract

Today's business environment and intense competition drives organizations to find improved and more efficient ways to develop their production. For many manufacturers one of the key challenges is to find the bottle necks of the current production line. Overall Equipment Efficiency measurement can be used to find these, but the available solutions are usually expensive and specialized equipment. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how hobbyist level electronics and very cost-effective solutions can successfully be used to measure Overall Equipment Efficiency. Such a system was developed and tested in a factory environment.

Calculation and improving the Overall Equipment Effectiveness for Textile Industry Machine

“…Assessing the utilization of the existing capacity is a key component to increase production capabilities in manufacturing facilities [8]. Overall Equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a metric and a tool in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), which is used to maximize equipment effectiveness [9] [10]. OEE represents the machine or production line efficiency.…”

“…Production Time (PT) = Shift length -Breaks -Planned stops -Services [10] Quality = [10] OEE describes a value but when it is counted machine by machine there will be different kinds of losses encountered and more details about those losses can be studied further to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the system [9] [10].…”