
Reliability Maintenance
Making OEE Work on the Plant Floor
In this episode of Reliability Maintenance, host James Couch breaks down Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in practical, plant-floor terms. He defines OEE in simple language, explains what it really tells you about your equipment and processes, and explores how it supports operators, supervisors, and reliability teams.James walks through how OEE connects with reliability metrics like MTBF, MTTR, and MTTF, and how those measures, together with OEE, can strengthen preventive maintenance programs and asset strategies. He also discusses the idea of "industry standards" for OEE in CPG and food plants, why numbers vary so widely from site to site, and...

