OEE management is a powerful method for increasing plant productivity. Despite the fact that the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) indicator has existed since the 1980s, only a small amount of high-quality literature on the subject has been published in German. The book “Increasing plant productivity through OEE management” by Dr. Markus Focke and Jörn Steinbeck aims to contribute to the understanding and dissemination of the methodology.
Increasing plant productivity through OEE management
The book”Increasing plant productivity through OEE management” was published in April 2018 by Springer Gabler as a book and ebook.
The Essential uses practical examples to explain how the plant productivity of manufacturing companies can be increased by introducing OEE management. The authors provide an easy-to-understand definition of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) that can be used in all industries. They provide implementation-oriented process suggestions for the introduction of OEE management in companies. The reader receives specific information on how to record the key figure and the causes of loss of plant productivity. Both manual recording and the application of Industry 4.0 technology are discussed. The OEE is a management tool for the structured, continuous improvement process (CIP) of plant productivity. Finally, there is a procedure for the financial evaluation of the OEE increases achieved.
The authors
Dr. Markus Focke is Professor of Production Management at the Department of Economics at Aachen University of Applied Sciences and head of the master's program in Industrial Engineering. For over 15 years, he has worked professionally on the topics of lean production and operational excellence. His positions include Daimler Commercial Vehicles, Porsche Consulting and since 2010, in addition to his professorship, he has worked as a consultant.
Jörn Steinbeck is a trained industrial engineer at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of California at Berkeley. His career has led him from PwC, IBM, Porsche Consulting and Zeiss to management at the Institute for Productivity, a management consultancy specializing in operational excellence and Industry 4.0. It is also involved as a start-up founder and gives lectures at universities on the topics of Lean Management and Industry 4.0.