OEE data can reduce 30% of maintenance cost

Understanding how to correctly calculate OEE can be a big difference in terms of productivity and maintenance costs.

What is productivity for you?

This concept is understood in different ways, depending on the vision of each hierarchy. In the view of engineers, for example, productivity is synonymous with Useful Energy / Energy Provided (Yield). In the Managers' view, it is the quantity of finished product and resources used (Labour, Raw Material and Equipment).

to have productivity, it is not necessary to have the best MO, the best EQ or the best MP. resource management and adequate resources. Production planning is certainly the starting point for achieving the company's objectives.

These plans or planning receive important support from tools of measurement and productivity control. Data collection, if carried out in a systemic way, seems to be the answer for the future of any industry.

This is because nowadays industries are looking for a machine data collection system that already calculates OEE. In the current market there are several systems that perform this task, generate reports, graphics, have the flexibility of cloud storage with access via the web, mobile devices and other platforms.

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Transform the wonderful system into financial return?

One way is to work on the variables of OEE with specific strategies for each one. understand how to availability could be a great opportunity in terms of productivity and maintenance cost.

Strategically who has the ability to interpret the data from availability to reduce maintenance costs it achieves on average an increase from 4 to 6% in the final OEE and a maintenance cost reduction of around 15 up to 30%.

But how?

Using the strategy of transforming the time based maintenance for maintenance based on condition.

Think about changing your car's oil. You carry out the procedure according to a specific mileage, such as 20,000km driven. But, what if this change could be based on the condition of use of that oil? What if, based on this analysis, you could safely drive another 10,000km? We are talking here about a 50% reduction in the cost of this maintenance.

In the same way, it works for mechanical systems with vibration analysis or electrical systems, if using thermography. these data connected to a cloud and analyzed in a system of process control, would indicate the best time for this exchange, thus increasing the useful life of each component and also reducing the cost of labor.

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