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OEE-IMPROVEMENT5 MIN READ

Do Not Double Count Bad Parts

Calculate performance and quality without double-counting defects or hiding speed loss.

The move: keep each OEE factor responsible for its own loss. Performance should answer a speed question: while the asset was running, how close was total output to the ideal cycle time? Quality should answer a yield question: of what was produced, how much was good the first time? When a report uses only good count in the performance formula, defects are counted once as lost output speed and again as quality loss. That may make the headline lower, but it makes the diagnosis worse. The team sees a blended penalty instead of a clean loss map. In practice Eli…

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