Compare Your Company Against More Than 2,000 Manufacturing Facilities Across the U.S.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c42999 ) has announced the addition of The 2006 U.S. Benchmarking Toolkit to their offering. The 2006 U.S. Benchmarking Toolkit provides more business metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. than ever to drive performance improvement at companies, divisions, and plants. Now in its third year, all you need is a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. to immediately compare your firm and facility data against that of more than 2,000 facilities across the U.S., including: Compare Your Plant: Answer as much or as little of the survey as you like, then see how your data compares to survey participants over the last three years. Power User Search: Narrow your results by industry (NAISC) or by a specific metric. For example, view results for Computer and Electrical Product Manufacturing companies with less than $100 million in annual revenue who follow a Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything compared to mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment in tools, and less engineering time to develop a new product. Methodology. Create and download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. reports and graphs: perfect for annual reports and market research presentations. View the latest metrics on the performances and practices used by leading manufacturers across the U.S., including: - Scrap and rework rate (as % of sales) - Cost of goods sold (COGS) - Warranty cost (as % of sales) - Return on invested capital (ROIC) - Customer reject rate (parts per million) - Training hours and investment - Customer retention rate - Operating Equipment Efficiency (OEE) - Overseas sales (% of total dollar volume) - Machine availability - Cycle times - Market focus - Imported material and components from China (% of dollar volume purchased from China) - On-time delivery rates - Improvement approaches (i.e., Lean, Six Sigma, etc.) Methodology The IndustryWeek/MPI 2005 Census of Manufacturers (released as the 2006 U.S. Benchmarking Toolkit) was designed to collect operational and business metrics and practices at manufacturing facilities. A four-page questionnaire with more than 100 questions, jointly developed by MPI MPI - Message Passing Interface and IndustryWeek (IW) magazine, was mailed to approximately 50,000 leaders and managers of plants (primarily IW subscribers) in late spring 2005. An online questionnaire also was publicized pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. Adj. 1. publicized - made known; especially made widely known publicised by IW. As an incentive, each respondent In Equity practice, the party who answers a bill or other proceeding in equity. The party against whom an appeal or motion, an application for a court order, is instituted and who is required to answer in order to protect his or her interests. was given the opportunity to anonymously request a free Executive Summary and a custom, online benchmark report. In 2005, MPI received 668 valid, completed survey forms (540 by mail and 128 online), and all responses were anonymous. Data was entered into a database, edited, and cleansed cleanse tr.v. cleansed, cleans·ing, cleans·es To free from dirt, defilement, or guilt; purge or clean. [Middle English clensen, from Old English to ensure answers were plausible and respondent had the opportunity to anonymously request a free Executive Summary and a custom, online benchmark report. Data was entered into a database, edited, and cleansed to ensure answers were plausible. The same Methodology was used for data collected in 2003 (967 respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. in total) and 2004 (681 respondents in total). For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c42999 |
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