Executive Summary

Metrics matter in business performance. The better the company's system for metrics, the more their operations performancve improvements, and the more their business and financial performance improves.

The quality of a metrics system is dependent on how fast data is gathered, how well metrics are linked, how rapidly results are displayed to the operators and supervisors who can take action, and how compressed the latency is between business metrics and the operations activities that caused them. Plant dashboards, manufacturing execution systems (MES) and automated data collection can help speed all of these elements.

To come to these conclusions, MESA International teamed up with Industry Directions and a set of MESA sponsor members to uncover which operational KPIs help justify improvements. Read this 40 page white paper to read about MESA's findings.