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Calculators and printable worksheets for continuous-improvement and operations teams. No sign-up, and nothing you type leaves your browser.

Calculators

Enter five numbers to get Availability, Performance, Quality and OEE, and see where the planned time went.

Turn shift length and customer demand into a takt time, then check your cycle time and operator count against it.

Each one is a companion to a guide, with the same worked example so you can check your own numbers against it.

The packaging-line data from the OEE guide, with every calculation step.

A four-level KPI tree with room for owner, formula and data source.

An original seven-panel A3 layout with a check under each panel.

Rules of use and a three-level taxonomy of downtime reasons.

The columns you need for a trustworthy downtime Pareto.

Work elements, takt, station assignment and load.

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Free manufacturing tools by Vrolen (vrolen.com/tools/)