This year has been filled with many new experiences, hard times, great times, and many opportunities for learning. While some may prefer to see this year pass sooner than later, 2009 is hopefully a year that presented many new opportunities and even greater challenges. As lean practitioners, we learn to appreciate failure from a different perspective than most people would enjoy. The focus is not the […]
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OEE: Take the Hit
The simplicity of measuring and calculating OEE is compounded by the factors that ultimately influence the end result. Because the concept of OEE can be readily embraced by most employees, it is easy for many people to get involved in the process of making improvements. Unfortunately the variables involved with OEE, like those of many other measurement systems, fall under scrutiny. […]
Lean Culture
Background Being in business for many years is, and can be, both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, the company has established itself and is well rooted in its chosen industry. On the other hand, it has established and well rooted “behaviors” built on a culture that have stood the test of time. This could be for better or worse. […]
Lean Innovation
If Lean Innovation is to become part of the new business norm, then why is that so many companies attempt to emulate what others have done? Innovation itself implies a sense of newness or differentiation from what was or is. It seems that “copy cats” are simply looking for the easy way out and call themselves lean in the process. […]
OEE and Morale
Is employee morale impacting your OEE? If so, how much of a concern is it? As we wrote in one of our recent posts, “Perhaps the greatest “external” influence on current manufacturing operations is the rapid collapse of the automotive industry in the midst of our current economic “melt down”. The changes in operating strategy to respond to this new crisis are bound to have an effect on OEE […]
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How to Reduce Costs with OEE: Cost Control
OEE can be used to improved your bottom line. We provide a little insight to getting it right.