As you many have guess from the phrase, continuous improvement is all about constantly trying to enhance and boost the functioning of your business. Regardless of whether it is the machines, the staff, the process or the management, there is always something a company can be better at and this is where continuous improvement comes into play.
Complete commitment from senior management
Senior management are those who are going to be implementing this new process and so out of everyone, they should be the ones most excited about it and most determined to see it work. However, as there is loads of change involved it is important that they are totally dedicated to cause, if they are not then neither will their staff.
Good communication throughout whole business
Continuous improvement requires a lot of changed throughout the whole business and so every member of staff is going to need to be involved in implementing the new process. This means that good communication is going to be a key tool as everyone needs to feel like they know what’s going on and what they need to do.
Frequently asked questions about Overall Equipment Effectiveness
What is Overall equipment effectiveness?
Overall equipment effectiveness or OEE is all about measuring three extremely significant parts of a business; availability, performance and quality to calculate the overall performance of the business.
Should I care about OEE?
The simple answer to this is yes. A lot of businesses track and evaluate their downturns in availability, performance and quality, but not many look at all three of them together or think about the impact that alterations made to enhance one area will have on the others. Applying overall equipment effectiveness will bring together all these three aspects into one single factor for you to measure.
Can I use OEE on any process/manufacturing operation?
This process was born in the cell-based world of manufacturing and it was originally designed to measure the OEE of individual and specific production calls, a cell being an individual machine, a group of operatives undertaking a process or any other kind of measurement which was needed.
But OEE has been adjusted to create things like OEE Impact which have taken an original concept one step further enabling it to take into consideration other production variable making the measurement tool more flexible and functional. Which now means that principles of overall equipment effectiveness can be applied to any process, even those which take place in a standard office?
