No more man hours per ton - start using Overall Labor Effectiveness

[@davidaguilar1453]

Hello Tom. Greetings from Peru. A couple of weeks ago, I just heard about OLE, since for my thesis, I had planned to apply OEE, but they told me that this was more for machines. I work in the agroindustrial sector, in Peru, and in the activities of selecting and packaging fruit for export (fresh mango), it is done with people, manually.

[@TomMentink]

Hi David, that's great to hear - hope you have great fun and learnings from your thesis study. Do note that the OLE calculations I describe here are based of machine OEE x crew size. This is a way to take machine effectiveness a level further and make it way more valuable than the usual manhours/units produced. If you're dealing more with people capacity and the machines are just there to help them (no really bottleneck machines or machine efficiency to deal with), then it's better to look at your Labor Effectiveness in much the same way as your usual OEE - that is, just the one-dimensional scale. Take away off-time first, then planned breaks etc, and then split real stoppages from overall lower speed and constant minor issues. To do this, you will need to have a standardised unit for measuring output per hour - that's a problem for many job shops, but I think it shouldn't be a problem in most agricultural companies, as it's high volumes with very comparable tasks day to day (at least while you're handling the same produce) - just like in most manufacturing.

[@fakeobsessionuk]

Hi Tom, did you ever do the follow on video for what you discussed at 5:48?

[@TomMentink]

Not yet - that’s a good challenge - I’ll gather my thoughts and experience on overall labor effectiveness for labor-centered work into an upcoming video 😊

[@AKRAMAKRAM-zp9ur]

Hello Tom, really is very important video, i'd like to use it in my work. i dont know if you can support us by excel sheet of OLE and OEE. Thanks so much

[@TomMentink]

Hi Akram, I don’t have a ready to use format for that interaction yet. I usually make it on the fly based on the company’s existing OEE files or overall loss analysis files. 🤷‍♂️

[@TJ-nk8vm]

Hi Tom, i like your videos, in this i see that the OLE = actual paid hours / effective time the result will be more than 1. it should not be effective/actual paid hours * 100?

[@TomMentink]

Hi Teobaldo, thanks for your support! You're absolutely right - the OLE calculation should be [effective time * manning norm = effective hours] / [actual paid hours]. Thanks for pointing it out.