Factbird’s OEE Waterfall (Coming soon)

Let’s look at how Factbird helps manufacturers reach their OEE goals using the waterfall approach for OEE...

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Understanding OEE - An Overview

A free lesson and article introducing Overall Equipment Effectiveness. You'll find out: what is OEE, why manufacturers use OEE, and where does OEE come from?

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Introducing the Three Components of OEE

Our OEE expert gives you a brief introduction to the three components of OEE: Availability, Performance, and Quality in this free lesson for manufacturers.

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Exploring Availability

Availability is a critical component of OEE. It measures the time that equipment is ready and available for production relative to planned production.

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Assessing Performance

Performance in OEE identifies how effectively equipment is being utilized. It’s calculated by comparing the actual output to the equipments' designed capacity.

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Focusing on Quality in OEE

The Quality component of OEE measures the effectiveness of a manufacturing process in producing good-quality products. Learn more in this free OEE lesson.

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Recapping the Nakajima OEE approach with examples (Coming soon)

Get an overview of the Nakajima approach to OEE. In this lesson of the Mastering OEE course, we go through the OEE calculation using real numbers.

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Factbird’s OEE Waterfall (Coming soon)

In lesson 7 of the Factbird Mastering OEE course, we look at how Factbird helps manufacturers reach their OEE goals using the waterfall approach for OEE.

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Factbird’s practical guide to calculating OEE (Coming soon)

Let’s put together what we’ve learned so far with an OEE calculation example. We’ll start by grouping stops into availability, performance, and quality losses.

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Common issues when measuring OEE (Coming soon)

Even with easy tools like Factbird, there is still a learning curve when implementing OEE analysis. Here are some common issues that occur when calculating OEE.

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Best practices for implementing OEE (Coming soon)

This Mastering OEE lesson covers some practical strategies to help you implement and improve OEE for sustained manufacturing excellence and profitability.

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OEE in different manufacturing settings (Coming soon)

In reality, it's impossible to reach 100% OEE (aka "perfect production"). Here are examples of how OEE look across different industries and companies.

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How to improve OEE (Coming soon)

Improving Overall Equipment Efficiency is vital for better productivity and lower costs. In this lesson, we'll explore strategies and a practical framework.

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Mastering OEE summary and key takeaways (Coming soon)

Here is a recap of the main points covered in the Mastering OEE course and some final thoughts and encouragement for practical application.

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Next steps and resources for further learning (Coming soon)

Would you like to learn more about Overall Equipment Effectiveness? Here are some suggestions for further study and additional resources on OEE to dig into.

Mastering Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Understanding OEE - An Overview