The quest for improving productivity in the current global competitive environment has led to
a need for rigorously defined performance-measurement systems for manufacturing …

The performance and competitiveness of manufacturing companies is dependent on the
reliability, availability and productivity of their production facilities. To ensure the plant …

The paper reviews the background of OEE and various improvement frameworks and
explores their limitations. The review found that there is a lack of improvement frameworks …

Performance measurement is a fundamental instrument of management. For maintenance
management, one of the key issues is to ensure the maintenance activities planned and …

Globalization and technological changes are now creating challenges for manufacturing
companies. The latest technological developments in the manufacturing industry have …

The drive to lower operating costs and improve manufacturing efficiency has led many
manufacturing companies to implement different methodologies in order to identify a …

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a well-accepted measure of performance in
industry. This study investigates the relationship between the factory management and the …

Safety is one of the most important issues in modern industrial plants and industrial
activities. The Safety Engineering role is to ensure acceptable safety levels of production …

To improve productivity it is essential to improve the performance of the manufacturing
systems. This system consists of various resources like labour, materials, tools, plant and …

Equipment maintenance and system reliability are important factors affecting the
organisation's ability to provide quality and timely services to customer. While maintenance …