How do you truly measure your facilities performance? OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) is a great measure that takes three core metrics and rolls them up into one key performance indicator (KPI) that shows true operational performance. Overall Equipment Effectiveness, or OEE, in its purest form is simple and easy. Yet we as leaders make it...Read More

No process manufacturer operates a flawless plant. Eventually something will go wrong. How managers and frontline associates respond to problems in those moments will determine the difference between operational excellence and manufacturing mediocrity — or worse. The Performance Solutions by Milliken (PSbyM) Process Industries Performance Study found a wide variety of unfortunate problems in process...Read More

Process-industry executives depend on their equipment to achieve profitability — which means they’re keenly aware when a critical piece of machinery doesn’t run as scheduled. Unfortunately, for many plants, that’s far too often. The PSbyM Process Industries Performance Study found that machine uptime (as a percent of scheduled uptime) is only 67 percent (average) at...Read More