Improve OEE - 5 Best Free Articles

Here’s our pick of the best free articles to help you improve your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

Rank is based on clarity, usefulness, and actionability.

1. Information, Decision, Action Framework for Improving OEE

This guide offers a specific and simple framework for improving OEE: Information, Decision, Action. We love that it provides a framework for a data-driven approach, concrete examples, and useful free templates. If you have time for just one resource, this is it.

2. Common OEE mistakes

As you work to improve your OEE, this short and concrete article can help you prevent common mistakes, such as excluding changeovers or not engaging operators in your improvement processes.

3. Using OEE as a Tool to Understand Opportunities to Improve and Measure Progress

This article shares overall advice on how to best use OEE - as a tool to understand areas for improvement and yardstick to measure progress. Although it does not share specific, actionable examples, it is a helpful complementary read.

4. Simple, shareable guide to understanding OEE

This is an older resource, but contains helpful examples as well as a set of definitions that could be useful to print and share with your team.

5. Background on OEE, research-focused rather than super-practical

If you’d like to learn about how OEE relates to other processes and methods to measure and improve, plus case studies, this article provides useful specifics.

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