Overview
Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Many of my projects at H.B. Fuller were related to Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). OEE is a metric used to show the real time a machine spends making good product at top speed withought stopping. My main project was a maintenance database. This database helped to increase communication of OEE through out the plant through automated emails, increasing the effectiveness of decisions involving maintenance and machinery down time.
The challenge
Safety
This summer I had the priveleage to get hands on with the design, implimentation, and testing of PLC programming on large scale machines ecosystems. Modifying valve timing and HMI interface's to better help the operator run the machine in a safe manor, and help decrease wear and tear on the machines was a major focus.
Responsibilities
The Design Process
Identify a Problem
Get an idea on physical paper with hand drawings. It is important to get an idea out of your head and on paper, it is this step can often make or break an idea.
Use your Resources
Stakeholder Management is the continuous process of identifying, analyzing, and engaging with individuals or groups who can affect or be affected by a project or organization. In operations engineering, the best resource we have are the operators who work with the machines every day.
Iterative Design
Utilizing input from Stakeholders, iteritive design takes place to continually improve upon the final product.
Scope