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OLE
Performance

OLE (Overall Labor Effectiveness)

Overall Labor Effectiveness

Composite labor-performance metric typically combining availability, performance and quality concepts for workforce effectiveness.

Examples

  1. 01OLE for the hand-assembly team is 71 %, combining time available for work, work pace and right-first-time quality.
  2. 02The weekly review shows OLE by team, with the biggest loss coming from waiting for material.
  3. 03A project to improve material supply uses OLE as its outcome measure and lifts it to 80 %.

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