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Delivery of p/

Senior - Definition of future
company management , customer expectations
response (To secure long-term
growth)
Middle/first
line management Definition of
Delivery of
production
response
Shopfloor
teams

Figure 1.4 The value stream

Establishing this company-wide perspective places equal emphasis on
strategic direction and delivery. This helps managers at all levels to present
a consistent set of leadership values and behaviours - an effective
countermeasure to a shopfloor battleground littered with incomplete initiatives.
Systematically applied TPM is also strong enough to sustain direction as
managers progress through their career development path (the most common
root cause of initiative fatigue).
The key is to measure and monitor all the major hidden losses, then direct
the company resources to reducing those that will increase the organization's
profitability.

1.4 OEE and business success

The classic measure of Overall Equipment Effectiveness is the
product - in percentage terms - of the Availability of a piece of
equipment or process x its Performance Rate when running x the
Quality Rate it produces.
The OEE measure is not just limited to monitoring the effectiveness of a
piece of machinery, however. It can, and should be, applied to the business as
a whole, assessing the productivity of the complete value chain from supplier
to customer.
A very powerful business measure, the OEE is a key performance indicator
(see Figure 1.5) that can be applied at the three key levels.
Shopfloor - the machine or process: - floor-to-floor OEE