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OEE Is a Smoke Detector, Not a Scoreboard: ProFood World
If a plant is reporting OEE above 100% while living with daily downtime and weekly quality losses, what exactly is that number measuring?
This episode argues that OEE has become a scoreboard when it should be a diagnostic. It covers how manipulated baselines produce impossible scores, why a packaging jam is easy to count but a humidity-driven drop in powder flowability isn't, what real-time PLC data exposes that a clipboard never will, and why the shift with the worst number is sometimes the one that actually fixed something.
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