BSM are experts in maximising equipment productivity and we have a uniquely strong track record of successful implementations…..just ask our clients.
We apply the principles of Total Productive Management (TPM) to significantly improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) increasing output and/or reducing costs.
The benefits of our approach include:
- Increased output
- Reduced cost per unit
- Avoidance of the need for additional capital equipment to support volume growth
- Empowerment of shop floor employees
- Integrated cross-functional approach to equipment performance management.
The following techniques are often used in equipment productivity improvement projects:
- Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
- Measurement of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Availability, Performance, Quality and
Losses
- Using OEE Toolkit to Measure OEE
- Productivity based Planning
- Drum Buffer Rope approach to WIP management
- Corrective Maintenance and Poka Yoke
- Statistical Process Control
- Workplace re-design and layout optimisation
- Kaizen events
- Self Managed Teams
- Autonomous Maintenance.
BSM believes in:
- Using the OEE metric and maintaining improvement objectives for 3 month, 6 month and 12 month timeframes
- Applying the techniques of Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Just in Time (JIT) to manage the flow of Work in Progress
- Involving shop floor and support personnel in the detailed design of improved processes.
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