PLC Maintenance Management

OEE Analysis at Toyota Motor Manufacturing company

OEE can be analyzed with True Downtime Cost in mind.

"A reply to one readers inquiry for help doing an OEE analysis of a well-established automotive industry automotive plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing."

This article is about measuring overall equipment effectiveness as a basis for increasing the productivity of manufacturing process. It is delivered as a reply to one of our readers. He was doing a three month research at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia and focused on a production line of it's stamping plant.

The Japanese Path to Maintenance Excellence

By Mike Sondalini

maintenance excellence

"A component of the Japanese production system is the equipment maintenance and how equipment criticality determined."

In August 2002 I spent a week in Japan at the chemical plant of an internationally renowned chemical manufacturer. While there I asked them about how they do their maintenance. They told me about their maintenance philosophy. And I want to pass on to you what I learnt about the Japanese way of doing maintenance on that trip.

The followings are some key points about Storeroom management for maintenance works. You must understand Materials management system, Design storeroom physical Layouts,Identifying Stock Items , storeroom management and some economical issues. These are key points that can help you to keep your spareparts cost down.

We will talk about these key points in the next post...

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