2018 MPI Manufacturing Study

An improvement of a single percentage point in a key metric can mean the difference between manufacturing success and mediocrity—or worse.

The MPI Manufacturing Study collects detailed manufacturing practice and performance data, making it the world’s most comprehensive collection of manufacturing benchmarks on a plant level:

  • Plant Operations: improvement methodologies, programs/practices in place, cost of goods sold (revenue, labor, overhead, and material), sales per employee, manufacturing cycle time, on-time delivery rate, perfect delivery rate, finished-product first-pass quality yield, scrap and rework, warranty costs, inventory management practices, inventory turn rates (raw material, work-in-process, finished goods, and obsolete inventory).
  • Human Resources: number of employees, union representation, labor turnover rate, participation in work teams, wages, formal training hours, HR programs in use, and job-related injuries and associated missed worked days.
  • Supply Chain: nature of supplier and customer relationships, outsourcing, customer reject rates, customer retention rates, overseas sales, imported material, and programs and practices in place.
  • Capacity, Equipment, and IT: production volume, machine availability, operating equipment efficiency, return on invested capital, capital investments, and IT purchase plans.
  • Sustainability: importance of sustainability to plant success, use of various recycling and reuse programs, energy management programs, renewable energies, formal green corporate programs, and green products.

The results of the MPI Manufacturing Study are available as part of our Manufacturers Benchmarking Toolkit .

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