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Downtime & OEE Ledger

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Fleet OEE is not the average of the machine figures. Averaging weights a four-hour mangle equally with a twenty-four-hour dyeing machine, and it flatters every time.

What a Minute Is Worth

Downtime priced twice: what it costs to stand still, and what the output would have earned

Labour and absorbed overhead that continues while the machine does not

Selling price less variable cost, not the margin after fixed costs

The Target

What the improvement is being asked to reach

85 is the often-quoted world class figure; most textile plants sit in the 45-65 band

Machine Register

One row per machine for the period. Planned time is the time the machine was scheduled to run, not the calendar; a machine deliberately left idle for want of orders does not belong in it, or availability will report a commercial decision as a breakdown.

MachinePlanned Time minDowntime minIdeal Rate units/minTotal Output unitsGood Output unitsAvailability %Performance %Quality %OEE %Lost to Downtime costRow actions
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Downtime Log

The reasons as the supervisors wrote them down, for the same period and the same machines. This is deliberately not reconciled against the register: the difference between the two is the most useful figure on the ledger.

ReasonMinutes minOccurrences no.Minutes Each minShare of Logged %Cost costRow actions
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How to read this sheet

Fleet OEE is fully productive time over planned time across the register, which is the only formulation that survives machines of different sizes; the averaged figure is shown beside it because that is what most dashboards report and the gap is the point. The three fleet factors are derived so that they multiply back to the headline - averaging the per-machine performances instead would produce three numbers whose product is not the OEE printed above them, which is how a report comes to disagree with itself. Planned time is scheduled time, not calendar time: a machine deliberately idle for want of orders does not belong in the register, or availability reports a commercial decision as a breakdown. Downtime entered above the planned time is clamped to it rather than allowed to drive a negative availability through every fleet figure, and good output above total output is clamped the same way. The log is deliberately NOT reconciled against the register: they are two independently recorded numbers, and the residue between them is stoppage nobody wrote down. A negative residue means the log records more downtime than the machines do, which is equally worth knowing and usually means an event was booked against a machine that was not scheduled. Ideal rate is the machine nameplate rate for the product actually being run, not the fastest product it has ever made; using the latter moves the loss out of performance and into a place no improvement plan can reach it. The prize at target holds the current product mix and the current quality rate constant, so it is the output the same floor would yield at a better OEE and not a forecast of what a project will deliver.

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