Calculate and interpret availability, performance, and quality losses for a packaging run.
A planned 8-hour canning shift should run at 120 cans per minute, but the line produces 47,400 total cans and 46,650 sellable cans. OEE = Availability x Performance x Quality The common trap is blaming the loudest downtime event instead of calculating which loss category cost the most sellable output. Availability Planned time is 480 minutes. Waiting for beer, changeover, and breakdowns total 115 minutes, so run time is 365 minutes. Availability = 365 / 480 = 76.0 percent. This tells you the line was unavailable for nearly one quarter of the planned shift before speed or quality even matter.…
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