Obama and OEE
The reason I’m commenting on this is because I recently read the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll on Rasmussen Reports and they are giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index score of -8. What does that mean? The index score is a measure of those who strongly approve vs those who strongly disapprove.
Rasmussen is reporting that 29% of Americans strongly approve while 37% strongly disapprove. Further more, 47% say that they “somewhat” approve of Obama’s performance, while 52% “somewhat” disapprove of his performance. It was the word “performance” that set me off on the OEE trail.
As I mentioned, OEE is a score and it consists of three constituent components - Availability, Performance, and Quality. Here is a brief explanation of each:
- Availability: Of the total amount of time a given piece of equipment “could have been” ready, how much of the time was it “actually ready”.
- Performance: For the given amount of time that a piece of equipment was actually “ready” and knowing the maximum amount of work that potentially “could” have been done, how much work was actually performed.
- Quality: Considering the amount of work that was “actually performed”, how much of that was “good”.
Here is my analysis:
Obama has been mostly available since he took office. While he did have some trips outside the country in various places around the world where he spent time apologizing to terrorist nations on behalf of America, he has been (or could have be) available when needed. It’s not like he can “disappear” and not be contacted in the event of an emergency. Let’s give him a score of 90%.
Rasmussen is giving Obama a performance score of 47%, so let’s use that.
As for Quality, let’s consider the sum of the work that Obama has actually done since he took office and what of that is to be considered “good work”.
- TARP (bad)
- Taking control of the banks (bad)
- Buying junk mortgages and taking ownership of the housing industry (bad)
- Forcing GM CEO to resign (bad)
- Taking control of GM and Chrysler and then giving the UAW union a controlling share (bad)
- Attempting to nationalize Health Care (bad)
- Apologizing around the world to known terrorist regimes (bad)
- Entertaining the “Fairness Doctrine” (bad)
- Reinstating government support for Abortion (bad)
- Closing GITMO and moving terrorists to Michigan (bad)
- The Stimulus Bill (aka “Porkulus”) (bad)
- Prosecution of previous administration (bad)
- Global Warming, I mean Global Cooling, I mean Global Climate Change, I mean Cap and Trade Bill (bad)
- Cash for Clunkers band-aid to prop up low new car auto sales (bad)
- Being the 2nd highest recipient of campaign donations from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (bad)
- Backing up the cut-over date for the switch to digital TV (good? maybe…?)
- Not producing his birth certificate to put an end to the discussion (bad)
- Choosing Sonya Sotomayer as a replacement justice (bad)
- Comments made about the police department that arrested Henry Gates (bad)
I’m seeing a trend here and it isn’t going well for the quality component of our OEE formula. Since any number multiplied by zero produces zero, for the sake of argument let’s give Obama a preliminary Quality score of 10% just so he has “something” and we can keep our OEE score interesting.
Therefore, Obama’s OEE score would look like the following:
Availability (90%) x Performance (47%) x Quality (10%) = OEE (4.2%).
Just an FYI - “World Class OEE” is a score of 85% or better. That would require an average score of 95% on each of the sub-components. In simple terms, Obama’s OEE score could be explained this way: While he seems to be around and available enough of the time, he actually doesn’t do very much of what he potentially could be doing, and what he does do by and large produces bad results.