My best operators had the worst OEE. Not because they were bad, but because they were the only ones who could run the hard jobs. OEE was the metric. On paper, my strongest people looked like my weakest. They knew it, I knew it and it made performance discussions impossible. We had over 200 dies in that department. Every SKU had its own die, some were easy to run and some were not. And more than that, OEE didn't tell me what to do. It was a number that described a problem wit