OEE is the gold standard for understanding the performance for any production plant, production unit, workshop, or individual station. Further, monitoring OEE gives manufacturers visibility of exactly where to focus resources in the quest to improve production quality. In general, though, this is where PLAB can be a great benefit to you. By enabling your company to track OEE, not only do you get more visibility into your processes than ever before, but you also gain the most effective way to focus your process improvement teams. It works like this. After you have been tracking downtime and quality losses for a couple of months, you can easily open PLAB reports to see a Pareto chart showing downtime reasons. Then it is a matter of organizing a team or project to focus on the largest reasons for downtime. This is how you know for sure that your limited process improvement resources are focused on the problems that, when solved, will yield the most return and improve performance the m...