Overall Equipment Effectiveness - OEE: necessário, mas não suficiente: uma análise integrando o OEE e a Data Envelopment Analysis - DEA

Abstract

The levels of efficiency with which firms turn inputs into products can lead organizations to increase their competitive capacity. Nevertheless, the literature presents a shortage of methods that allow the evaluation of the performance of the operations in the productive systems, considering all its components. Thus, the objective of this work is to propose an analysis of efficiency in a productive system using the OEE and the DEA integrated. To achieve the proposed goal a case study is carried out at a bus manufacturer. A comparative analysis was conducted with the results obtained through the use of DEA/OEE and the results of OEE measured in an operation of the company studied. The efficiency measured with the use of DEA/OEE presents differences in relation to OEE results. The analysis of the causes of these differences pointed out that the actions taken to improve the OEE indicator reduced the efficiency of the analyzed operation. The study points out that decision-making focused on improving OEE itself may lead to an increase in resource consumption in an operation. This increase in resources does not necessarily raise production levels, thus reducing technical efficiency.