Manufacturing Performance Metrics
Metrics Makeover Contest
Enter the Metrics Makeover Contest by October 11!
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MESA has a long-standing commitment to understanding performance metrics for manufacturing and production companies. MESA's Metrics Working Group was formed in 2004 based on the needs of manufacturer / producer members to understand what impacts performance and make a case to management for core improvements in processes and IT systems.
For the first few years, MESA tried to find materials already published that we could help to disseminate to the members, but found nothing that matched the needs and could be made available at a reasonable price to all members. So in 2006, MESA conducted its first research study, MESA Metrics that Matter. That same year and as an adjunct to the research, some of the best consultants in the organization created the MESA Metrics Guidebook. In 2007, as the new MESA model became available the research study Metrics for Major Initiatives was generated. In 2008, new metrics definitions and calculations were published in Improving Order Execution Performance: A Holistic View of Metrics Across Plant and Warehouse, for which MESA collaborated with the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) and MHIA's Order Fulfillment Council and Supply Chain Systems and Technologies group. In 2009-2010, MESA executed the study Correlating Plant Performance with Business Performance along with a public highlights report, Metrics that Matter Revisited.
The MESA Metrics working group continues to drive to new activities and deliverables. We are planning another major research study in 2011. MESA's new multi-year research program includes many facets and is led by a joint steering committee and executed by several individual groups working on specific aspects of the research.
Major objectives of the MESA metrics research program include:
- Show trends for progress on metrics
- Benchmark performance
- Justify system investments
- Link operations to financial improvements
- Support strategic initiatives (MSI Guidebooks)
- Create best practices guidance
- Deliver a framework for metrics that can be delivered as freeware to premium members
RESEARCH STUDY:
Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance, published in February 2010, focuses on metrics practices and the improvements in plant performance that those who increased business performance have made. It includes best practice tips, quotes from industry leaders, and a clear statement that any manufacturer or producer can achieve business performance improvements.
Download the research study here. An overview is provided at the below YouTube video.
WHITE PAPER:
Metrics that Matter Revisited is a white paper that summarizes a few of the highlights of the 2009-2010 research study that even non-members can access.
Download the research-based white paper here.
WEBCAST:
Improving Performance in Difficult Times: MESA Study Shows How: Lead researcher Julie Fraser presented this webcast live in December 2009 based on Phase 1 research findings from the study Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance, The preliminary findings are similar, but not identical, to those of the final report
PRESENTATION:
Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance at October 2009 MESA Europe Conference on Phase 1 research findings
WHITE PAPER:
Improving Order Execution Performance: A Holistic View of Metrics Across Plant and Warehouse is a paper from 2008 published in conjunction with the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) and MHIA's Order Fulfillment Council and Supply Chain Systems and Technologies groups that describes the critical need to align performance measurement across the plant and warehouse execution functions, and provides shared definitions and calculations for over 50 relevant metrics.
Download the white paper here.
RESEARCH STUDY:
Metrics for Major Initiatives is the findings from a primary research study conducted in 2007 focused on several of the MESA Strategic Initiatives: Lean, Quality, and Real-time Enterprise. It is a snapshot of what companies do to gauge the success of such initiatives.
Download the research study here.
GUIDEBOOK:
MESA Metrics Guidebook was published in October 2006 to deliver a view of considerations, concepts, and best practices for establishing performance metrics that are effective not only in the plant operation, but to improve business success. This Guidebook incorporates thinking from many of the best consulting minds in the industry based on many years of experience with many manufacturing and production companies.
RESEARCH STUDY:
MESA Metrics that Matter is the original 2006 MESA research into performance metrics for manufacturing and production companies. The findings from this original primary research provide a platform for companies to understand what differentiates companies that improve their business performance from others.
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