An Application on the Measurement and Improvement of Overall Equipment Efficiency in a Production Line

Total productive maintanance work is an important step of lean production philosophy. Total productive maintanance can be defined as the whole of the works performed to increase the productivity of the equipments that are used in production activities and to prevent the defected parts that result from the probable machine error. We come across the term of Overall Equipment Efficiency for the measurement of the lean production and total productive maintenance implementations. This term helps us measure how efficiently the machine and equipment are used in the workplace (uygun gibi). In this study, Total productive Maintenance was mentioned in terms of productivity in businesses the importance of overall equipment efficiency was expressed for businesses and the values of overall equipment efficiency of the production line in a pasta production plant were calculated. As a result of this calculation, it was determined that the machine stoppage was not low enough and some improvements were made. In the last chapter, the values of Overall Equipment Efficiency were compared to ideal values and production line stoppages were evaluated in terms of values before and after the improvement