Productivity of capital equipment

To consequently react to market demands and to efficiently match these to the companies resources requires above all an appropriate plant organization. Thereby products and/or customers are allocated to plant locations. Within a single plant the means to further focus operations is business segmentation.

Based on these structures machines and capital equipment need to be used at the lowestt possible cost level. OEE-Initiatives help to identify the productivity measures that promise the highest yield. A low level of OEE more often than not is a result of unsolved organizational or technological challenges. Both of which are a core competence of CIM Aachen.

Organizational deficits should be eliminated by business process improvement. Technological short comings are often reduced to disruptive manufacturing processes, which may be realigned with a focused IPM-Initiative.