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Practical articles for supervisors, managers and improvement leaders who want to find the losses their reports don't show, and fix the ones that matter most.
What is the hidden factory in manufacturing?The hidden factory is the capacity a plant loses to stops, slow running, rework and waiting that never shows up on the production report. Here is how to see it, price it and kill it.How to put a price on downtime: the cost of one lost minuteA simple, defensible formula for what one minute of line time is worth, with a worked example, and the mistakes that make downtime numbers fall apart in front of finance.OEE losses explained: the six big losses and how to find themOEE breaks a line's performance into availability, performance and quality. Here is what the six big losses are, how OEE is calculated with a worked example, and how to use it without fooling yourself.
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