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Machine Attendance Overlap Fraction Tool

Calculate supplied machine-attendance overlap fraction and nonoverlap minutes without allocating labor cost or inferring safe staffing.

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Description

Calculate recorded overlapping machine-attendance time share.

Production quantities distinguish planned time, operating time, setup, cycle time, demand, first-pass good units and accepted rework. A local availability term is not complete OEE, and equal time-per-unit arithmetic is not measured capacity. Counts and durations must share one nonoverlapping accounting scope.

Calculate recorded overlapping machine-attendance time share.

When to use this tool

Use Machine Attendance Overlap Fraction when you already have overlappingAttendanceMinutes, observationMinutes and need to calculate recorded overlapping machine-attendance time share.

How to use the tool and how it works

  1. Enter overlappingAttendanceMinutes, observationMinutes. Use the units and conventions below.
  2. Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
  3. Read fraction, remainder. Use the output convention below.

Require observationMinutes>0 and overlappingAttendanceMinutes within total; return overlap/observation and observation-overlap.1

Input fieldMeaning and unitsAccepted input
overlappingAttendanceMinutesOverlapping Attendance MinutesRequired. Finite number; minimum 0.
observationMinutesObservation MinutesRequired. Finite number; strictly above 0.
Output fieldInterpretationReturned shape
fractionFractionRequired. Finite number.
remainderRemainderRequired. Finite number.
json
{
  "input": {
    "overlappingAttendanceMinutes": 30,
    "observationMinutes": 120
  },
  "output": {
    "fraction": 0.25,
    "remainder": 90
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

  • The denominator and overlap are supplied; no operator workload, double coverage, productivity or safe staffing is assessed.
  • Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.
  • Numeric calculations use binary floating point unless exact decimal-integer arithmetic is explicitly stated. No hidden measurement tolerance or decimal rounding is added; nonfinite or out-of-contract results are rejected. Numeric signed-zero results are exported as zero.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Review the full time study, production ledger and process definition before interpreting performance. Use a complete capacity, OEE or workflow analysis when bottlenecks, quality, concurrency and operating constraints matter beyond one local term.

References

  1. Calculation and input contract: industrial-engineering/machine-attendance-overlap-fraction — tool.io

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