Industrial Engineering
Efficiency is two numbers multiplied together. Reporting only the product tells you something is wrong but never which half.
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Earned minutes against attended minutes
Labour cost is charged on attended minutes, not earned ones — the factory pays for the time it bought whether it was on standard or not. Absent operators are removed from attended minutes here, which assumes they are unpaid; adjust if your costing says otherwise.
Factory Line Efficiency, Performance & Utilisation Modeler — free, with the formula and a worked example, at Textile School.