The Efficiency of Production Equipment Improvement – a Case Study

The inherent aspect of assessing the effectiveness of improvement activities in enterprises is building a system for measuring performance, hence using a variety of measures and indicators. These measures are used to evaluate key activities carried out in various functional areas of the company and indicate their effectiveness in relation to the objectives of the organization. One of the measures most widely used in enterprises assessment of the efficiency of the maintenance, production and logistics is the efficiency of production equipment - OEE. The literature on OEE indicates the spectrum of its applications. It is used both as a operational efficiency measurement as well as a guide for managers for building internal cooperation between maintenance, production and logistics as well as initiating actions to increase the effective use of management at the disposal of production equipment. The purpose of this article is to show the possibilities of improving efficiency of production equipment working in the painting facility. Article consists of five chapters. The second chapter on the basis of the literature points indicators of efficiency used in enterprises concerning its equipment. The third chapter describes the production line, the analysis of OEE and defines the main problems. Section four – improvement actions and assessment of their impact on the value of the OEE. The fifth chapter is a summary and conclusions.