What is a point of OEE worth?
Your OEE gap is capacity you already pay for but never ship. Put a euro on it: enter today's OEE and a target, and see the money, the extra good units, and what a single point is worth. Numbers update as you type.
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Before you can raise OEE you have to see it honestly. The free OEE Tracker logs each shift and shows your OEE, your loss Pareto and your trend, so today's number on this calculator is a real one.
Open the free OEE TrackerPoints come from finding the true cause.
Most of the gap on this calculator is small stops and speed losses that hand logging never catches. Fabrico reads every stop straight from the machine and uses computer vision to pin the true cause, then closes the loop to an auto-routed work order. That is how a point of OEE actually gets recovered, not just measured.
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Every point of OEE is 1% of your line's fully-loaded output. Because the machine, the labour and the overhead are already paid for, the extra units you get by raising OEE arrive at close to pure contribution margin. That makes OEE improvement one of the highest-return projects on a plant floor: no new line, no new shift, just shipping the capacity you already own.
The math
Annual value recovered = (target OEE - current OEE) as a fraction, times your ideal rate, times annual operating hours, times your margin per piece. The value of a single point is that figure divided by the point gap, which also equals ideal rate times annual hours times margin times 0.01. It does not depend on where you start, so the first point is worth exactly as much as the last.
Why is one point worth so much?
Because it multiplies across every operating hour in the year. A line at 3,600/hr running 4,000 hours makes 14.4 million ideal units a year; 1% of that is 144,000 units, and at even a modest margin that is real money. Check your current OEE here.
Isn't some of the gap impossible to recover?
Yes. 100% OEE is not the goal - 85% is the world-class reference for high-volume lines, and many plants aim lower. Set a target you can defend and read the value of closing that gap, not the whole distance to 100%.
How do we actually raise OEE?
The gap is mostly availability (stops) and performance (micro-stops and speed loss). You need automatic stop capture and a way to see the true cause of each loss, which is where Fabrico comes in. See also the Hidden-Factory calculator for the micro-stop share.
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