Manufacturing Metrics: OEE, Capacity & Takt Time

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Break one day on a moulding press into availability, performance and quality for each shift, multiply them into OEE and pool the day correctly.
• Turn a week of press data into the six big losses in minutes, check that they add up to the OEE gap and chart them largest first.
• Work out the pace the customer demands, add up the work at each station, find the line's real cycle time and measure how well the line is balanced.
• Turn machines, cycle times, OEE and shift patterns into effective capacity per hour and per week, find the true bottleneck and size the extra hours it needs.
• Turn a month of breakdown timestamps into repair hours, MTTR, MTBF and the availability they imply, and find which cause costs the most hours.
• Split a mould change into internal and external work, measure how much press time SMED frees up and see how a cheaper changeover shrinks the economic batch size and its cost.
• Put a dollar figure on scrap and rework for four products, measure the first-pass yield and chain the yields of three process steps into the rolled throughput yield.
• Compare six months of demand with base capacity, decide month by month between base, overtime and a second shift, cost the plan and chart demand against capacity.