// Tool 05

OEE Dashboard

Equipment that's “on” isn't the same as equipment that's producing.

What it is and when to use it

Equipment can run without ever fully stopping and still lose a large share of its real capacity to short stops, slow cycles, and defects, unnoticed. This tool turns raw shift data into one number, Availability × Performance × Quality, broken down by cause, so the decision to fix what's on the floor or invest in new equipment is made with data.

Worked example

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Download the blank template (PDF)One page. Print it and fill it in with your own numbers.

What goes on the sheet

Shift/date, equipment, planned production time
Stop log: category (breakdown, changeover, minor stop, startup) and minutes per event
Total parts produced, ideal cycle time, good vs. defective parts
Calculated fields: Availability %, Performance %, Quality %, OEE % (the product of the three)
Pareto of stop causes, ranked by minutes lost in the period
Trend row: OEE by shift/day/week

In a business like yours

Craft brewery: the canning line looks busy all day, but changeovers eat a big share of the shift.
Print or sign shop: the big printer is on for eight hours; how many of them print sellable work?
Bakery oven: availability, speed and burnt trays combined into one honest number.

Illustrative examples, not client cases.

// Talk to David