(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the world. So much so that OEE is quickly becoming a requirement for improving quality and substantiating capacity in leading organizations, as well as a required area of study for those pursuing ISO/TS 16949 certification.

Introducing the classical approach to improvement, author Diomidis H. Stamatis, Ph.D., (aka Dean) provides an understanding of exactly what OEE is and how it can be best applied to address capacity issues in his book, The OEE Primer: Understanding Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Reliability, and Maintainability (CRC Press, 2010).  

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