DIFFERENT OEE APPROACHES' ANALYSIS OF APPLICABILITY IN PRINTING SECTOR.

Total Productive Maintenance is one of the application techniques, which is a widely accepted form of lean management system, at business and production management. OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) technique is used in Total Productive Maintenance for assessing equipments' being used efficiently or not in any organizations and applications. In this study, testing the applicability of two different OEE approaches and comparing the obtained results in the daily newspaper printing having a unique working conditions are aimed. In the application part of the study, traditional OEE calculation method and OEE calculations with a new approach was made in a printing press which performs the publication of the largest circulation newspapers in Turkey. Datas were collected during six months and calculations were made with two mentioned methods for each day in which the datas were collected. The evaluation about the applicability of two OEE approaches in the printing sector was made according to the obtained results after the calculations being made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]