Crisis management with OEE

You can go a long way with normal production plan ing. Everyone has a long experience of that, and many are skilled.

The problem is that you cannot get a decisive competitive edge when you are good at what the others can do.

In a crisis, everything is more on the line. It is a requirement to be particularly skilled, because the pressure comes from all sides. In a corona-time there shouldn’t be too many at work at a time, everyone has to keep their distance, customers have a squeezed business, the support from the government comes too late and nothing is as usual.

In this situation, real-time data can help in many ways.

” You can monitor production to a large extent without being in the factory

– Reduction of waste results in lower production costs

– Identifying the critical stop causes can streamline production within the given production time.

For example, the production manager may get a notification if the time to convert a machine is too long.

It’s always cheapest and easiest to solve problems as soon as they occur, so real-time data also allows you to make good decisions quickly.

Put another way, 20% of all stops in production can be to blame for 80% of the loss. If you can identify where to put in, it can have a high value.