IMPLEMENTING OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS OEE AND SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE A CASE STUDY OF HICOM DIECASTINGS SDN BHD HDSB
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a metrics to evaluate how successfully a manufacturing operation is managed. The affirmative of implementing OEE is most important in managing organization sustainability. The actual implementation (managerial perspective) must register on the perceptual radar of people (social perspective) for them to act, think and behave as expected. It affected the views and attitudes of managers in the organization on managing OEE. This process is aimed at creating a culture of excellence in the organization. Hence, managing OEE can be seen as a process of culture transformation through which the existing elements of the culture are modified, replaced or strengthened with better elements. These elements encompass values and attitudes, systems and procedures, operational practices organization structure and so forth. At this stage, OEE will be reflected in many ways in the organization such as effectiveness of management, ability of the employees, efficiency of the operational systems and the authority responsible for implementing it. Due to global competition, companies have to integrate effectiveness into all aspects of their products and services. This research focuses on employees' implementation on OEE in Hicom Diecastings Sdn Bhd. OEE has become increasingly popular as one of the managerial approaches across the world. The implementation of OEE in Hicom Diecastings Sdn Bhd is intended to be a cornerstone of competitiveness in order to fulfill customers' satisfaction as well as to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Importantly, employees are regarded as the most important entity in ensuring that OEE can be carried out successfully in an organization. Since this research involves the staff (executive and nonexecutive employees) of Hicom Diecastings, the unit of analysis is the individual. Respondents were identified through convenient sampling. 300 questionnaires will be administered, examined and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 12.0. Variables were adopted from works [1] Prior to the survey, this paper is to provide a critical review with graphical or visualize information and understanding of the OEE implementation in the past, present and future undertaking. The design of this paper includes a brief introduction of OEE and its approaches, methods, survey, discussion and conclusion.