Organising chaos

Magazine Article, Source : The Manufacturer
Zone : Operations and maintenance
Published : September 2005
Get involved: The Manufacturer of the Year Awards 2009

Brian Davis finds that the overall equipment effectiveness measure can turn instinctive reactions into productive actions

Doing OEE measures helped create order out of chaos, says Phil Hirst, lean manufacturing engineer for aircraft component-maker Bulwell Precision Engineers. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a key measure for judging lean performance, but...

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