The 5 Biggest Continuous Improvement Challenges and How the Factory Operating System Solves Them All

1. Resistance from the Shop Floor and middle managers
As any Lean or Continuous Improvement (CI) practitioner can attest to, the first problem you encounter while trying to drive changes is resistance from the shop floor – and then the management team. The resistance is often created by a fear of change and people being pushed out of their comfort zones. It also arises from conflicting agendas.
CAN OEE BE USED TO REDUCE OPERATING COST?
OEE or Overall Equipment Effectiveness measures manufacturing performance against perfection. It is regarded as the global benchmark for measuring manufacturing efficiency. Any deviation from perfection drives up operating cost. OEE looks at three different losses and multiplies them across to assess total losses. Those losses are:
Availability - This is a measure of downtime (both planned and unplanned)
Throughput - This measures rate loss against the theoretical maximum run rate
Yield - This measures the amount of efficiency lost due to quality issues