OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS IMPROVEMENT BY REDUCING NON VALUE ADDING ACTIVITIES USING LEAN TOOLS

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

The industrial development which has been connected to the financial condition over the world brings the manufacturing companies to enhance their production level so as to sustain in the competitive market. Changing an organization to raise its production level or profit is not a one day journey, but requires some time. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (O.E.E) is a powerful and easy to use metric incorporating measure of the utilization, yield and efficiency of a given process, machine or manufacturing line. For even better improvement of the O.E.E (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) of machine, a tool like S.M.E.D (Single Minute Exchange of Dies) reveals to be really powerful when improving the productivity of the machine. Lean manufacturing aspects such as 5 S’s and Kaizen for example are tools that are also applied to improve the production rate, by reducing the non value adding activities including 3 M’s (Muda, Muri, and Mura) The research project developed inside this present report aims to investigate all the possibilities to improve the O.E.E of C.N.C Machines Equipment, facing theoretical aspects and reality issues.

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