OEE Tells You The Average. TRI Tells You Whether You Can Trust The Line.
Two lines report 62% OEE. One is a scheduling anchor. The other is a planning liability. OEE can't tell the difference. TRI can.
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Why Plant Turnarounds Fail After The Consultant Leaves
They fail because the plant gets recommendations but not routines, ownership, recurrence tracking, or proof-of-fix. Here's how to build the system that holds.
Read noteWhy Your Pareto Chart Keeps Sending You To The Wrong Fix
Same bar on the Pareto. Different root cause. Different fix. Different owner. Here's why variance decomposition beats top-loss ranking.
Read noteYour Plant Doesn't Need Another Dashboard
Dashboards are where good data goes to die. What plants need isn't visibility — they need a system that turns visibility into action.
Read noteShort Stops Are the Early Warning Nobody's Reading
92.6% of major downtime events were preceded by short stop clusters. The pattern is always there. Nobody looks.
Read noteThe Gap Between Knowing and Doing Is Where Plants Lose Money
Every plant knows its top 3 problems. They've been on the Pareto chart for 6 months. The problem isn't analysis — it's the absence of a system for acting on it.
Read noteOEE Is a Starting Point, Not the Destination
OEE tells you where you are. What's missing are the layers that tell you where you're going — consistency, direction, and economic impact.
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