Executive Summary
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SHOPFLOOR PRACTICES & PERFORMANCE
Which of the following improvement methodologies
does your business use?
5S workplace organization 59.6% 34.2% 39.0%
Agile manufacturing 3.8% 4.9% 4.7%
Benchmarking 32.7% 23.6% 25.3%
Cellular manufacturing 32.7% 18.2% 20.9%
Continuous-improvement program 61.5% 46.2% 49.1%
Just-in-time (JIT) movement of material 46.2% 23.6% 27.8%
Kaizen events/blitzes 25.0% 15.1% 17.0%
Kanban and pull systems 34.6% 20.9% 23.5%
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) monitoring and analysis 25.0% 8.4% 11.6%
Poka yoke (error prevention) 34.6% 14.7% 18.4%
Quality certifcations (e.g. ISO, NADCAP, etc.) 61.5% 39.1% 43.3%
Single-minute exchange of dies (SMED) 9.6% 4.0% 5.1%
Six sigma 21.2% 12.0% 13.7%
Theory of constraints 26.9% 6.2% 10.1%
Total productive maintenance 19.2% 11.1% 12.6%
Total quality management 28.8% 24.0% 24.9%
Value-stream mapping 32.7% 18.2% 20.9%
Other 1.9% 0.4% 0.7%
No formal methodology 9.6% 23.1% 20.6%
Do you use robots to perform part loading/unloading
for any of your machine tools?
Yes 24.5% 9.9% 13.1%
No 75.5% 90.1% 86.9%
Please provide the following measures for your
business in 2014:
Order lead time (receipt of order to delivery to customer in days)
Median 21.0 21.0 21.0
Average 27.0 51.2 45.6
80th Percentile 41.0 50.0 45.0
20th Percentile 10.0 10.0 10.0
Machining-time percentage (% of order lead time
that the product is being machined)
Median 20.0% 25.0% 25.0%
Average 32.0% 35.8% 34.9%
80th Percentile 60.0% 60.0% 60.0%
20th Percentile 10.0% 10.0% 10.0%