Designing Program for Measuring Overall Equipment Effectiveness By Applying on Children Wear Factory in Mosul

Abstract The current research aims at explaining the standard of overall equipment effectiveness and the way of application. The ability of better utilization of machines and equipments through adopting (Total Productive Maintenance Program) may work for achieving a high percentage utilization of it without need to the additional investments of machines and equipments, where TPM seeks to eliminate what is called Six Big Losses that may co occurred in the production process (breakdowns, setup and adjustment, Idling & minor stoppages, reduced operating speed, scrap and rework, and startup losses). So, this paper is an attempt to measure the success of Total Productive Maintenance programs through modeling a standard called Overall Equipment Effectiveness that indicating the amount of reduction or minimizing the six big losses associated with machines and equipments. Therefore, a program on computers has been designed in order to apply the standard of OEE. .