by Agathe Lecomte | May 11, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Eliminating Micro-Stops: Pareto, Top 3 Root Causes, and Targeted SMED Project Detecting micro-stops is the necessary technical prerequisite for their reduction but not sufficient. Detection only makes visible a problem that already existed, it does not solve it....
by Agathe Lecomte | May 11, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Detecting Micro-Stops: External Sensors, Thresholds, and False Positives Automatic micro-stop detection is the technical prerequisite for any serious program to reduce invisible production losses. Without exhaustive timestamped capture, no Pareto analysis is credible,...
by Agathe Lecomte | May 11, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Micro-Stops on the Production Line: How to Detect and Eliminate Them Micro-stops are the most invisible and most structurally underestimated loss in any industrial production line. Defined as any machine stoppage under five minutes, typically between fifteen seconds...
by Agathe Lecomte | May 11, 2026 | Industrial Performance
OEE vs TEEP vs OOE: Three Indicators, Three Use Cases, One Underlying Measurement OEE, TEEP, and OOE are three distinct equipment effectiveness indicators that share the same underlying mechanics but use different time-frame denominators. The choice between them is...
by Agathe Lecomte | May 11, 2026 | Industrial Performance
Calculating OEE in Excel: Ready-to-Use Template and 6 Pitfalls to Avoid Excel remains in May 2026 the most widely used tool to calculate OEE in manufacturing worldwide. Not because Excel is the best tool, it clearly is not, but because it is universal, free, and...
