Overall Equipment Effectiveness (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "This book is the culmination of the many years of experience I have inside a large Fortune 100 company..." (more)
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Review

"The book becomes a must-have desk reference for maintenance managers, production foremen, reliability engineers, manufacturing executives, and plant leadership teams." -- Bob Baldwin, Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional and Editor of Maintenance Technology Magazine

Product Description

Written primarily for those responsible for the reliability of equipment and the production operation, this innovative book centers on developing and measuring true Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). The author demonstrates that true OEE correlates with factory output, provides a methodology to link OEE with net profits that can be used by reliability managers to build solid business cases for improvement projects, and draws on his own experience by presenting successful improvement applications in every chapter. Additionally, it will also help practitioners better understand Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and develop an effective foundation to support Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM).

FEATURES

- Presents all essential definitions, a practice application, including three methods of computation, and reconciliation of OEE and various losses.
- Provides the platform and reasons for maintenance and production to work synergistically.
- Helps to identify the "hidden factory" that exists within the current system in order to begin leveraging its potential into real bottom line results.
- Integrates the famous "Theory of Constraints" aspects into an easy to understand shutdown strategy example.
- Contains many practical examples throughout to illustrate techniques and methods in a way everyone can easily understand.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.; 1st edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0831131381
• ISBN-13: 978-0831131388
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #397,868 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hidden Factory Unlocked, April 24, 2002

By	mike moll (Rochester, New York United States) - See all my reviews

As a practitioner of Equipment Reliability and the person responsible for Equipment Operational Effectiveness, I found Mr. Hansens' views of OEE extremely accurate and useful. His interpretations and the posturing of OEE with factory output demonstrates the importance of reliability to the corporate bottom line. Many companies continuously ignore the importance of unlocking the hidden factory and don't realize the waste generated by ignoring OEE concepts. Mr. Hansen, in 274 pages, gives a complete and compact version that any corporate manager, by being proactive and a visionary, can utilize to change costs into profits. Reliability and OEE technologies appear to be fairly new to much of the industrial world. Mr. Hansen decribes in his book a cultural change, that if followed,will help produce a payback welcomed by any corporate institution. His writing is easy to understand by both new and old Reliability/OEE practitioners. He has written in an orderly fashion with each chapter building on, and complementing the previous. The book describes in a step by step fashion the concept of true OEE, which when practiced will unlock the hidden factory. As Mr. Hansen points out; "If you are not supporting Reliability, then you are supporting failures".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Improve your plant!, January 10, 2007

By	Ir Pitoyo Amrih - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Improving the manufacturing plant can goes nowhere if you go blind. Seiichi Nakajima gave that vision by his OEE's ideas. And this book..., this book can make that vision better and better...

4.0 out of 5 stars Right and clear, March 8, 2009

By	Carlos Soto "knowledge eater" (MEDELLIN, Colombia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It has been a surprise to find a book that goes right to the point of company's problem. What to measure?
This indicator, which born on TPM's methodology,is a valuable tool that let from top managers up to bottom line operators, to work with the same system's focus, with the same language, without complicated calculus throughout the areas.
It is easy to read and easy to comprehend. It should be present on every library's manager.