Quality Loss Reasons

A loss refers to any event that reduces an asset’s efficiency or hinders its ability to produce or assemble a product. Proper configuration of loss data enables meaningful analysis of the root causes of production losses. This, in turn, supports the development and implementation of targeted improvement initiatives aimed at increasing asset efficiency and overall performance.
Three main types of losses exist:

• Time losses
• Capacity losses
• Quality losses.

A quality loss is any event that negatively impacts on an asset's ability to produce or assemble products that meet the desired level of quality. For example, a component failure that results in misaligned milk carton labelling.

Possible reasons for quality losses are preconfigured an reused throughout the system.

Also refer to Time Loss Reasons and Capacity Loss Reasons for more information.