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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)<\/h1>

Everything you ever needed to know about OEE.<\/h2><\/header>Free Guide to Maintenance Metrics<\/span><\/a>\n
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What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?<\/h2>\n

Overall Equipment Effectiveness<\/span> (<\/span>OEE<\/span>) is a maintenance <\/span>metric<\/span> that takes availability, performance, and production quality into account to rate the productivity of assets and systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Manufacturers across industries calculate <\/span>OEE<\/span> to better understand the effectiveness of their individual assets and their production processes as a whole. The calculations compare the asset or system\u2019s actual productivity to peak performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Digging into performance data and <\/span>OEE calculations<\/span> can offer surprising insights. Often, the process helps to identify the root causes of <\/span>unplanned downtime<\/span> and other <\/span>inefficiencies<\/span> to ensure <\/span>maintenance teams<\/span> can take corrective actions.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Tracking <\/span>OEE<\/span> is an essential component of <\/span>lean manufacturing<\/span> and <\/span>Total Productive Maintenance<\/span> (<\/span>TPM<\/span><\/a>). <\/span>OEE scores<\/span> help lean manufacturers locate and eliminate sources of waste to maintain <\/span>continuous improvement<\/span>. As a maintenance KPI<\/a><\/span>, <\/span>Overall Equipment Effectiveness<\/span> offers a performance <\/span>benchmark<\/span> for any organization hoping to maximize their assets\u2019 <\/span>productive time<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row kd_background_image_position=”vc_row-bg-position-top” css=”.vc_custom_1687442797424{margin-top: 40px !important;}” el_class=”limble-page-blog-width”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/span><\/h2>\n

Calculating OEE?<\/a>
\nFactors affecting OEE scores<\/a>
\nOEE formulas<\/a>
\nWhy is OEE important?<\/a>
\nThe Six Big Losses<\/a>
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Calculating OEE<\/h2>\n

The numbers you\u2019ll need for calculating <\/span>OEE<\/span> fall into two main categories: parts and time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Measuring the number of parts you have produced<\/b> involves tracking the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n