Managing the Effort

Most organizations don't even really know how much downtime they have on their processes, even their critical processes. The place to start measuring downtime is at the bottleneck equipment or process. The best source of data collection is the last one, when the equipment has sensors built into it and data are automatically collected. The Pareto Principle is derived from the work of the 19th-century Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. A line graph titled Downtime depicts the relationship between time in hours on the y-axis and comments on the x-axis. Most organizations record the downtime for each process on a daily basis. While the operators and supervisor/team leader should be held responsible for downtime including measuring and reporting it, management must be the ones to monitor the performance.