Enhancing OEE as a Key Metric of TPM Approach-A Practical Analysis in Garments Industries

Golam Sakaline,Md. Mahraj Uddin,Mohammad Muhshin Aziz Khan

doi:10.24018/ejers.2021.6.2.2376

Abstract

Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector has been the biggest earner of foreign currency for Bangladesh since the last few decades. Garments industries have been playing a major role in redefining the infrastructure and economy as well. Todays’ world of competition brings both opportunities and challenges in this sector. Productivity, efficiency of these industries can be achieved through implementation of perfect maintenance strategy and design. This paper aims to enhance the existing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for the pitfall areas in the plant. After examining the current loophole, the research focused on improving OEE factors by adopting a hybridized Total Maintenance (TPM) scheme. To achieve a better outcome, the company agreed to implement the recommended plan appropriately. The OEE has been upgraded from about 57% to 69% due to the proper management and execution of the proposed TPM model. The result has provided an indication of maintaining sustainability to achieve the world class benchmark and founded a solid basis to implement the exploratory TPM model in the plant

Highlights

In Bangladesh the Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector began its business in the 70’s but it was solely an unpretentious effort
The Bangladesh government has set an RMG export target of $50 billion by 2021 which will undoubtedly difficult to achieve; because, there are so many obstacles which could impact on this growth like development of other garment production hubs, digitization and mechanization of the production process, the entry of new competitors, improper utilization of every resources and the dynamicity of the international apparel industry [3]
The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) was calculated for Cutting and Sewing sections of the plant which was summarized in the following table: From the table, it resembles the weakness of the Sewing section because of its low OEE in comparison with World Class

Summary

Introduction

In Bangladesh the RMG sector began its business in the 70’s but it was solely an unpretentious effort. According to the latest statistical review in Geneva (2020) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bangladesh’s global clothing export market share has increased to 6.80 percent where annual export of clothing or readymade garments was around $34 billion which holds the second position only behind of China [2]. This sector provides employment for over four million people.

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