Members of the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International have developed a conceptual framework and related best practices that will help manufacturers achieve plant floor performance improvements that impact business operations.
Leveraging the experience of MESA’s global community of manufacturers and vendors, the whitepaper, “Harnessing the Power of Metrics to Diagnose and Solve Business Problems,” illustrates a systematic approach to achieving measurable business results, MESA said.
The paper goes beyond explaining the theory of why and how metrics work to improve performance and instead delivers actual examples and best practices. In addition to a series of easy-to-use checklists that include common metrics aligned to various job titles or goals that might appear on a dashboard, for example, the paper presents examples of operational issues and how they link to financial results.
“Management often demands that operating groups or plant managers demonstrate performance improvements in terms of business improvements,” said Steve Kaplan, global MES administrator for Murata Power Solutions and MESA Metrics Working Group co-leader, in a statement. But there are so many nuances to the process of diagnosing and solving problems, he said.