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STUDY ON FACTORS AFFECTING TO MACHINE OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY

identify the various faults at production 3 METHODOLOGY
level and to immediately take steps to
improve efficiency. Man efficiency and The parameters that can be used to
man power utilization in industries were measure the OEE and the key areas were
explained by using shift lengths. Shift identified by the literature review initially.
lengths of planning were divided in two In addition to that secondary data was
categories such as planned down time and obtained from the cable manufacturing
planned operation time. Planned downtime division of Production department. Data was
is duration of time where the management collected considering machine down times
has decided to stop the production process from three months which was selected by
due to certain commitments. Planned following the random sampling technique.
operation time is the proposed time for Therefore sample size was decided
production process by the management. according to the literature. Research was
Actually industries try to reduce unplanned conducted using SPSS 17.0 software to
down times to increase production carry out multiple regression method and
efficiency (Subramanian et al., 2015). Microsoft excel tools. The collected data
was analyzed to identify the influence of
OEE is one of the most popular method
can be used to evaluate the performances five factors namely start-up loss, setup and
and process of manufacturing as well as adjustment loss, minor and idling loss,
eliminating the factors caused for losses machine breakdown loss and shout down
occurred in production process (Hassani, loss. Descriptive statistics were used to get
2015). general idea on the Sample and hypothesis
testing was done on main five factors to
TPM is a maintenance program that identify the impact of each factor.
involves concepts for maintaining plant and
equipment effectively. OEE is a powerful 4 DATA COLLECTION AND
matric of manufacturing performance ANALYSIS
incorporating measures of the utilization 4.1 Details of Data Collection
yield and efficiency of a given process,
machine or manufacturing line (Staff, Data collection was done using a daily
Shagluf, & Fletchera, 2014). Multiple production log sheets and early documents
regression analysis method can be used to that in Production Department.
analysis the data which have followed
normal distribution and all other satisfaction
criteria. The purpose of the quantitative
study was to examine the relationship
between dependent and independent
variables (Plotts, 2011).

Frequent machine breakdowns, low
plant availability and increased overtime
were become great threat to a manufacturing
plant as they increase operating costs of an
industry. Every manufacturing company
tries to produce goods at a profit and this is
only achieved by using an effective
maintenance system that helps maximize
availability by minimizing machine Figure 1: Down times in minutes of
downtime due to unwarranted stoppages bunching machines
(Fore & Zuze, 2010).

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