Urgent -> The Cost of Things Gone Wrong!

Most of you will know that this is the first time I have published two posts on the same day.  I was compelled to write this post after receiving yet another “dashboard suite” offer. To be clear, I fully support and recommend the use of dashboards.  They are excellent tools to help us manage our business.  I am reminded however […]

OEE and Human Effort

I was recently asked to consider a modification to the OEE formula to calculate labour versus equipment effectiveness.  This request stemmed from the observation that some processes, like assembly or packing operations, may be completely dependent on human effort.  In other words, the people performing the work ARE the machine. I have observed situations where an extra person was stationed […]