Rosita Arelis Villota – Costos de Producción

Ingeniería Industrial-Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia.

OEE And Its Effects On Productivity.

The OEE is a measure of production information, it is used as an analysis tool to improve
production, thus reducing unnecessary downtime. By itself, it does not produce any improvement,
since it only represents the state of the condition of the machine (efficiency), for it to be effective it
is necessary to analyze the ways and means of improvement. OEE is based on the concept that all
downtime can be reduced and still reached zero, so the number of planned downtime should be kept
to a minimum.
The OEE method uses three different percentages to measure work area efficiency, each of which
addresses a specific problem, forcing the work area to concern itself not only with one task, but also
three aspects related to the method.

1. AVAILABILITY
How effectively the time allocated to production is being used. (This is affected by the unscheduled
shutdowns carried out in the process), the following formula is used:
Tiempo de Operación Tiempo Planificado de producción−Paros
¿ =
Tiempo Planificado de producción Tiempo Planificado de producción

2. PERFORMANCE
How effectively the speed of the machine is used. It does not tell us if it is faster or slower, it tells
us how stable the speed is in periods of time. It helps us to calculate minor stoppages.
N ° Total de Unidades Velocidad Real
¿ =
Tiempo de Operación x Velocidad Máxima Velocidad Máxima
3. QUALITY RATE
It is the percentage of units that meet the quality standards of the process (this is affected by the
amount of defective product obtained).
N ° de Unidades conforme N ° de Unidades conforme
¿ =
N ° de unidades conforme+( Scrop+ Retrabajo) N °Total de Unidades

By increasing productivity (OEE), we can manufacture more units at the cost of only raw materials
and other variable costs, because the corresponding part of the fixed costs has already been borne
(amortized) by the units manufactured at the current production rate.
In this way, the profit margin of the surplus units manufactured due to increased productivity (OEE)
will be the sum of the fixed cost plus the profit margin that we want to apply to the product unit.
This cost reduction allows you to sell at a very competitive price without losing money or
increasing the profit margin of the product.