Tube, Pipe & Profile Forming worked example

Line OEE at 68% speed performance factor: a worked example in tube, pipe & profile forming

This worked example runs the line oee numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 68% speed performance factor instead of the typical 95%. Line OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is the single percentage that tells a tube, pipe and profile forming plant how much of its planned production time actually turned into good, saleable product.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Actual forming run time: 420 hr (held at the documented default)
  • Planned production time: 480 hr (held at the documented default)
  • Speed performance factor: 68 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 95)
  • First-pass quality factor: 98 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Line OEE = operating time รท planned time.
  • Effective availability works out to 58.31 % at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base availability works out to 87.5 % at these inputs.
  • Performance factor works out to 68 % at these inputs.
  • Quality factor works out to 98 % at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where speed performance factor sits at 95% and the headline result is 81.46 %, this scenario comes in 28.42% below the baseline at 58.31 %.
  • Use it for shift-by-shift or weekly line reviews and to benchmark one forming line or mill against another. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

Results at a glance

  • Effective availability: 58.31 % (headline result)
  • Base availability: 87.5 %
  • Performance factor: 68 %
  • Quality factor: 98 %

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.