OEE Double Trouble: The Biggest Danger & Most Common Mistake
I can understand the (sometime) human craving for neat, tidy numbers to make sense of the world. It is tempting, and I can see why, as a manager or leader, …
OEE Side Effects: Are You Becoming Efficiently Unlean?
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was first incorporated at DENSO CORPORATION in 1971. By 1982, Seiichi Nakajima had formally introduced Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to the world in his book, TPM …
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) – Is it foundational, a distraction or an obstacle?
Catalysed by Dr Wheeler’s recent Quality Digest article deconstructing OEE (link below) in my next few posts I am going to summarise a series of issues, problems, thoughts and opinions …
Growing Heroes (Or Crushing Them in 20 Seconds Flat!)
Below are some further 30-year anniversary reflections of “Sid’s Heroes”! Broadcast back in 1995 on BBC1, this series of six half-hour programmes set out to celebrate the “grass-roots experts” who …
đź“ş 30 Years Later: Are We Still Holding Out for a “Hero” at Work?
Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane, shall we? Back in the early 1990s—well before “Lean Thinking” became the ultimate corporate buzzword—the UK’s industrial sector was hit by a …