Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Kaizen
OEE Kaizens focus on improving overall "up time" on bottleneck workstations and equipment. OEE Kaizen efforts teach process participants how to analyze and improve OEE components using root cause analysis, fishbone diagrams, pareto charts, cause and effect matrices, and other data-driven tools. Operator movements are mapped from setup to process to teardown and all wasted movements and steps are eliminated. OEE Kaizen workshops can also include 5-S and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) efforts to organize and maintain the workspace and reduce startup, breakdown, material and scheduling losses.

Typical results:

• Uptime improvements of 50% or more
• 70% reduction in wasted part travel
• 50% reduction in product cycle time
• 35% reduction in set-up times
• $110K average projected cost savings
• 5-S efforts lead to a cleaner, more organized, more efficient workspace which dramatically improves operator productive time