May 14, 2008
How Does Maintenance Improvement Impact OEE?
A Blog by Keith Mobley
Even though I am older than dirt and have been at this for many, many years there are occasions when I need help. This is one of those times.
Everyone seems to agree that Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is an important Key Performance Indicator; but no one can tell me how improving maintenance is the key to improved OEE. Statistics indicate that maintenance is responsible for about 17% of reliability or availability problems and most other loss factors seem to be non-maintenance.
If this is true, maintenance can only improve availability by 17% of the difference of current state and 100%. I would like to hear your thoughts on maintenance and its OEE role.
