Measuring Global Production Effectiveness

Increasingly shorter product life cycles at an increasing number of variations call for productive, reliable and quality-oriented production systems and networks which are able to meet the turbulence of global demand especially at an expected higher frequency of economic crises. The following paper presents the development of a theoretical measure for an evaluation that integrates all aspects of a globally distributed production system. The work is based on the latest enhancements of the classic OEE figure of the TPM concept.