Calculate Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) using availability, performance, and quality metrics.
How it works
Overall Equipment Effectiveness condenses three independent loss categories into one number: time the machine was not running, speed it lost while running, and output it made but could not sell. Multiplying the three gives the share of planned production time that produced good parts at full rate. The single figure is useful for tracking, but the three components are where the improvement work lives.
Run time = Planned production time − Downtime Availability = Run time / Planned production time Performance = (Ideal cycle time × Total count) / Run time Quality = Good count / Total count OEE = Availability × Performance × Quality
Planned production timescheduled time, with planned shutdowns and breaks already excludedDowntimeunplanned stops plus changeovers during the scheduled windowIdeal cycle timethe fastest sustainable time per part, from the nameplate rateTotal countall parts produced, good and defectiveGood countparts passing first time, with no rework
- Run time: 480 − 60 = 420 min
- Availability: 420 / 480 = 87.50%
- Performance: (0.5 × 800) / 420 = 400 / 420 = 95.24%
- Quality: 780 / 800 = 97.50%
- OEE: 0.875 × 0.9524 × 0.975 = 0.8125
- The whole calculation collapses to Good count × Ideal cycle time / Planned production time, which gives 780 × 0.5 / 480 = 81.25% here. If your three factors do not reproduce that shortcut, one of the inputs is defined inconsistently.
- 85% is the widely quoted world-class benchmark, built from 90% availability, 95% performance and 99% quality. Most discrete manufacturers measuring honestly for the first time land near 60%, and a first measurement above 90% almost always means planned production time was defined too generously.
- Performance above 100% is a data error, not a triumph. It means the ideal cycle time is set slower than the line genuinely runs, and it silently inflates OEE. Reset the ideal cycle to the best sustained rate ever demonstrated, not to a conservative planning figure.
- Rework counts as a defect. Quality measures first-pass yield, so a part that needed touching up before it shipped belongs outside the good count even though it eventually sold.
- OEE is a machine metric and only means something at a constraint. Driving OEE up on a non-bottleneck asset builds inventory rather than throughput, which is why TEEP, adding the calendar-time question of whether you should be running at all, is the better number at plant level.
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