"The U.S. Manufacturing Landscape: A Summary of Results from the 2005 IW/MPI Census of Manufacturers"
Industry Week
November 2005, pp. 20-24
668 plants from various industries responded to this yearly survey. Among the results were:
- The primary plant improvement method was identified as Lean Manufacturing (35.7% of the respondents). This was followed by Total Quality Management (15.9% of the respondents); Lean and Six Sigma together (8.0% of the respondents); Other (7.0% of the respondents); Agile Manufacturing (4.4% of the respondents); Theory of Constraints (4.0% of the respondents); Six Sigma (1.5% of the respondents); Toyota Production System (1.5% of the respondents); None (21.9% of the respondents).
- The areas where the improvement method is applied were Production (82.3% of the respondents), Materials Management (43.4% of the respondents), Shipping and Logistics (39.3% of the respondents), Purchasing (32.1% of the respondents), Customer Relations (26.8% of the respondents), Engineering (23.2% of the respondents), Supplier Relations (19.7% of the respondents), Administration (19.4% of the respondents), Finance and Accounting (16.3% of the respondents), and Research and Development (9.3% of the respondents).
- Strategic practices used include: Continuous improvement program (66.5% of the respondents), Quality certifications (45.4% of the respondents), Customer satisfaction surveys (45.1% of the respondents), Benchmarking (34.6% of the respondents), Environmental management (25.3% of the respondents), Total productive maintenance (21.7% of the respondents), Energy management (16.1% of the respondents), and Open-book management (15.0% of the respondents).
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