Industrial Engineering

Factory Line Efficiency, Performance & Utilisation Modeler

Efficiency is two numbers multiplied together. Reporting only the product tells you something is wrong but never which half.

Line Manning
no.
no.
h
min

Machine down, no feed, rework, waiting — summed across the line.

Output Against standard
no.
min
/min

Overall Efficiency

— %

Earned minutes against attended minutes

Minute Accounting

Performance on Standard
— %
Utilisation of Attended Time
— %
Earned Minutes
— min
Attended Minutes
— min
On-Standard Minutes
— min
Labour Cost per Piece
— /piece

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.