Measure OEE Where Throughput Is Governed
Select the most useful equipment or process point for OEE measurement using constraint logic.
The move: put your first OEE attention where throughput is governed. In a connected line, improving a non-constraint can create a local win with no customer impact. The filler gets faster but waits for upstream material. The case packer gets cleaner metrics but still receives uneven flow. Constraint thinking protects the improvement effort from that mistake. Use OEE at the constraint to ask: when this asset should have been producing, what stopped it, slowed it, or made bad output? That question converts a broad throughput problem into a ranked loss list. The goal is not to ignore other machines forever;…
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