Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for Achieving Consumer Packaging Excellence (GFT-726A)

A large, well-known, over-the-counter pharmaceutical manufacturer uses a handwritten logging system of faults on its 32 automated packaging lines. It operates three shifts 24 x 7, so it is important to minimize downtime. The packaging machines that it has in place are not designed to provide a sufficient variety of error code data to give the detailed information required. Inevitably, it is very difficult to try to obtain any true analysis of downtime… A global consumer products manufacturer responding to increased demand is looking for ways to optimize its 13 automated packaging lines and to plan for future expansion. It is crucial for plant management to understand where bottlenecks exist in its production as well as the cause of stoppages and the operational time spent during every production shift… One of the largest pharmaceutica