"OEE is simply a report-card value that’s skewed so that “the beatings will continue.” This is my experience. My supervisor at a large German manufacturer once informed me my OEE was less than another worker. I asked what he meant. He said he makes more parts than you do. I reminded him of all the Saturdays we worked overtime to rework thousands of the other guy's fabricated parts. No rework of my parts ever. Once when the equipment (machine) was malfunctioning, I informed my supervisor, because I did not want to be beat up again about my OEE. His response: "You have to be smarter than the machine!" The beatings continued for 8 years until the plant went out of business. Foreign competition was blamed along with the usual market downturn. Of course management had nothing to do with it! 

Thank you for another desperately needed article. Let us pray management will read it. 

Allen

P. S. Just late last month, QD published:

What Is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?, where we read (in horror) that "calculating overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) offers deep insights into the performance of production processes and enables data-driven improvements."

Let us pray a second time this group is self-policing fact from fiction. 

Dear Dr. Donald Wheeler,
Thank you for your article providing evidence of the absurdity of the OEE metric.

Dr. Tony Burns cited your quote:

"OEE is like using our weight times our height times our systolic blood pressure, as a measure of how good looking we are".