Plant effectiveness improvement of overall equipment effectiveness using autonomous maintenance training: - A case study

Abstract

In order to be successful in today’s world-class manufacturing environment, companies have to fulfil several requirements. The organizations are making hard efforts to enhance their productivity and quality to stay competitive. Total productive maintenance has provided a quantitative metric tool, which is known as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) to make them fit and agile for this competition. The OEE is a maintenance performance measurement tool that measures different types of production losses and indicates the areas of process improvement. This study involves tabulation and calculation of all components of the OEE and the productivity index in a TPM Manager Model machine of a selected automobile industry. In this paper an approach is developed to impart special autonomous maintenance training for Pilot team by an Education and Training pillar with a goal to raise operator’s skill levels and ownership for carrying out the measurement of OEE. The objective of this paper is to focus the measurement of OEE by incorporating the autonomous maintenance training. It has been concluded that OEE is a significant key performance indicator tool that results into improvement of an overall operational performance and plant efficiency.