Abin Antony, Author at Know Industrial Engineering

Manpower productivity formula

Manpower productivity, also known as labor productivity, is a measure of the efficiency of labor in generating economic output. It is typically calculated by the formula, ratio of output (goods or services produced) to the input of labor. The goal of measuring manpower productivity is to assess how effectively human resources are utilized in the […]

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Focused improvement (Kobetsu Kaizen)

7 Comments / Total Productive Maintenance / Abin Antony

Focused Improvement or Kobetsu Kaizen is one of the pillars in TPM. TPM is an approach to eliminate losses of machinery in a manufacturing facility.

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Load Chart – For Scheduling, Monitoring and Tracing of production

6 Comments / INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING / Abin Antony

If you have thought about how to optimize the production of low volume products, which requires highly skilled operators or costly machines, you might end up search with load chart. So read on to get a complete understanding on this topic. Load chart is a tool for scheduling, monitoring and tracing of production. You will

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

4 Comments / Total Productive Maintenance / Abin Antony

OEE is a measure of how well a planned production time of an equipment is utilized to produce good products. It can be measured from 0% to 100%. Its not only the equipment, effectiveness of achieving target number of good products, of all operations, whether it is manual, automatic or semiautomatic can be measured using

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