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World Industrial Reporter » Market Trends » Operations Execution

Operations Execution

September 28, 2012

By John Brandt

Manufacturing excellence doesn’t just happen. Plants near or at world-class status are far more likely to pursue improvement methodologies and best practices.

Executives at most plants understand that process improvement is important or highly important to their success (84%). But there’s an enormous gap between plants near or at world-class status and those furthest from world-class status when it comes to executing process improvements. For example, 93% of plants near or at world-class status follow an improvement methodology vs. just 80% of plants furthest from world-class. At the same time, plants near or at world-class status have 75% of their workforce (median) engaged in the improvement methodology vs. just 25% of plants furthest from world-class.

MPI also asked manufacturers to report on use of various operational best practices. For example, 50% of plants near or at world-class status use benchmarking vs. just 36% of plants furthest from world-class status. And a majority of plants near or at world-class status (52%) have five or more best practices/programs in place, vs. just 35% of plants furthest from world-class status.

Operations Execution (% of plants) 

 

Furthest from world-class

Near or at 
world-class

Process improvement highly important or important (% of plants)

80.1%

90.9%

Use of lean manufacturing (% of plants)

57.1%

75.0%

Use of any improvement methodology (% of plants)

79.9%

92.7%

Use five or more operations practices/programs (% of plants)

34.7%

52.4%

% of workforce fully engaged in improvement methodology(ies) (medians)

25.0%

75.0%

% of processes addressed with improvement methodology(ies) (medians)

40.0%

75.0%

 

How well does your plant execute on process improvement?

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Contact The MPI Group to learn more about the 2011 MPI Manufacturing Study findings and the 2011 Next Generation Manufacturing Study findings.

 

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