Studies on evaluation and Enhancement of manufacturing Performance using overall resource Effectiveness measure

Abstract

In today s global and highly competitive environment it is essential newlinefor the survival of any firm to be adaptive price competitive responsive and newlineproactive and needs to have the capability to deliver world class products newlineaccording to diverse customer requirements These challenges force newlinecompanies to implement various Lean tools to meet the needs of the everchanging newlinemarket demand In a great number of companies in spite of huge newlineimprovements in productivity there is still a bigger and better potential to newlineutilize machine tools effectively and reach better productivity goals One of newlinethe main methods to meet these challenges is to monitor and improve the newlineoverall effectiveness of the manufacturing system and benchmark it with the newlineWorld class standard which will enable to continuously improve and become newlinea World class organization The literature supports the Overall Equipment newlineEffectiveness OEE which consists of factors such as Availability newlinePerformance efficiency and Quality rate as a measure to improve the newlineequipment performance newline newline