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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a composite key performance indicator that quantifies how effectively a manufacturing operation uses its equipment relative to its full potential. Developed by Seiichi Nakajima in 1988 as a cornerstone metric of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), OEE multiplies three loss factors—Availability, Performance, and Quality—to yield a single percentage that benchmarks actual productive output against ideal output.

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Sources

  1. Nakajima, S. (1988). Introduction to TPM: Total Productive Maintenance. Productivity Press. ISBN: 978-0-915299-23-2

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