Food & Beverage Manufacturing worked example

Packaging Line OEE at 66% packaging performance factor: a worked example

Here is what the math looks like when conditions slip. We hold every other input steady and drop packaging performance factor to 66%, then walk the calculation through step by step. Estimate packaging-line OEE-style effective availability from operating time, planned time, performance, and quality.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Actual packaging operating time: 410 min (held at the documented default)
  • Planned packaging time: 480 min (held at the documented default)
  • Packaging performance factor: 66 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 92)
  • Packaging quality factor: 98 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Packaging Line OEE availability = actual packaging operating time รท planned packaging time.
  • Effective packaging line OEE works out to 55.25 % OEE at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base availability works out to 85.42 % at these inputs.
  • Packaging performance factor works out to 66 % at these inputs.
  • Packaging quality factor works out to 98 % at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where packaging performance factor sits at 92% and the headline result is 77.01 % OEE, this scenario comes in 28.26% below the baseline at 55.25 % OEE.
  • The practical read: the gap between this scenario and the baseline is entirely attributable to packaging performance factor, so recovering it is worth quantifying in dollars before considering equipment or staffing changes. OEE rolls all stoppages into availability, so a long changeover and dozens of two-minute jams can produce the same availability number while needing very different fixes.

Results at a glance

  • Effective packaging line OEE: 55.25 % OEE (headline result)
  • Base availability: 85.42 %
  • Packaging performance factor: 66 %
  • Packaging quality factor: 98 %

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Packaging Line OEE calculator, set packaging performance factor to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.