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title: "Why Can Factory OEE Improve While On-Time Deliveries Get Worse?"  
description: "Why Can Factory OEE Improve While On-Time Deliveries Get Worse?"  
author: "Lachlan Jones"  
published: 2026-10-22  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/118063/why-can-factory-oee-improve-while-on-time-deliveries-get-worse  
category: "Mix Category"  
tags: ["manufacturing", "Operations", "OEE"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why Can Factory OEE Improve While On-Time Deliveries Get Worse?

Our plant’s **overall equipment effectiveness** has improved for several months, yet customer orders are arriving late more often. Could the OEE score be rising while the real production bottleneck, changeover delays, or material shortages are getting worse?

How do manufacturers connect equipment performance measures to schedule adherence and finished-goods availability without turning the dashboard into a long list of unrelated metrics?


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