Question: How should set-up time be factored into the OEE calculation? Answer: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a powerful metric used to improve the effective use of resources, by machine.

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Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a percentage calculation determined by three major components—availability, performance (or run time) and quality. The goal of OEE is to enhance a plant’s ...

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Continuous plants tend to be relatively straightforward for setting up an uptime measurement. With some minor modification to the model of Figure 1-5, losses can generally be routinely accounted.