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Improvement of Manufacturing Performance Measurement System and Evaluation of Overall Resource Effectiveness

Karuppana Gounder Eswaramurthi1 and Pidugun Venkatachalam Mohanram1
  • 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Anna University, Coimbatore-641 004, India

Abstract

In the present highly competitive business environment, well run organizations continually strive to enhance their capabilities to create excellent value for the customers by improving the cost effectiveness of the operations. Significant improvement has taken place in the management of resources associated with manufacturing systems, to reduce the wastage of resources. The Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) concept provides a quantitative metric-Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), for measuring the effectiveness of equipment or a production line. In this study, a method is developed to evaluate Overall Resource Effectiveness (ORE) by including the factors known as readiness, changeover efficiency, availability of material and availability of manpower. ORE addresses various kinds of losses associated with manufacturing system, which can be targeted for initiating improvements. Further, a case study is presented for the evaluation of ORE in a manufacturing line.

American Journal of Applied Sciences
Volume 10 No. 2, 2013, 131-138

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2013.131.138

Submitted On: 14 November 2012 Published On: 3 February 2013

How to Cite: Eswaramurthi, K. G. & Mohanram, P. V. (2013). Improvement of Manufacturing Performance Measurement System and Evaluation of Overall Resource Effectiveness. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 10(2), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2013.131.138

Open AccessCopyright: © 2013 Karuppana Gounder Eswaramurthi and Pidugun Venkatachalam Mohanram. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Total Productive Maintenance
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness
  • Overall Resource Effectiveness
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)