Benchmarking Site - A Survey Al Did

[Marc]

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I would like to get some input from the forum of some benchmarking issues. If there is enough response I will crunch the data and post the final results. If warranted I will occasionally post updates to the matrix.

I would like responses to as many of the items as possible but I do realize there is data that some people will not want to post. The only thing I ask is that you do note your business type. (i.e. machining, forging, etc...)

Don't spend too much time compiling data, estimates are acceptable.

Here are the topics/questions:


1. Type of business:
2. Which "quality" system are you registered to:
3: Square footage of your facility:
4: Number of employees (full & part time):
5: Employee turnover rate:
6: What types of major equipment do you use:
7: Do you utilize an apprentice program:
8: Are you a private or public entity:
9: What are your shifts and work hours:
10: Are you design capable:
11: Number of engineers:
12: Are you CAD capable:
13: What are your approximate yearly sales:
14: Are you a union facility:
15: What is your average APQP/PR lead times:
16: Are you heat treat capable (internal or external):
17: Do you advertise:
18: Do you have safety and/or environmental concerns:
19: Do you use an internal CMM (or equivelent):
20: Do you have a web site:
21: Do you do your own trucking:
22: Are you minority owned:

Please feel free to add any additional items that you see fit and I will try to incorporate them into the final matrix.

I hope this works and I will be posting data from my current company shortly!

ASD...

[Michael T]

Tally Ho... I guess I'll start:

1. Type of business: Flexible metallic hose manufacturing
2. Which quality system are you registered to: ISO9002-1994
3. Square footage: approx 210,000
4. Number of employees: 150
5. Turnover: < 1 year approx. 7%; > 1 year approx. 0.5%
6. Types of major equipment: Mostly proprietary (designed & built in-house) Steel tube formers, corrugators, braiders, welding stands, etc.
7. Do you utilize an apprentice program: Not really - mostly OJT
8. Are you a private or public entity: Private
9. What are your shifts & work hours: 1 shift; semi-flextime, either 6:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. or 7:00 - 3:30 p.m. (for hourly - don't ask about us poor salaried slaves... )
10. Are you design capable: Yes
11. Number of Engineers: 5 (this doesn't count the number of people who THINK they are engineers... )
12. Are you CAD capable: Yes
13. What are your approximately yearly sales: $30 mil. (that is a rough approximation)
14. Are you a union facility: No
15. What is your average APQP/PR lead times: Don't know - don't track that data
16. Are you heat treat capable: We employ an external facility to do this when required
17. Do you advertise: Yes, but only within the market
18. Do you have safety and/or environmental concerns: Not really - we are implementing a new safety program and have a good environmental program in place
19. Do you use an internal CMM: Nope
20. Do you have a web site: Yes
21: Do you do your own trucking: No
22: Are you minority owned: Do Italians count as a minority? (No disparaging comments please - I truly don't know)

Cheers!!

Mike

As I promised:


1. Type of business: Machining

2. Which "quality" system are you registered to: Seeking TS-16949

3: Square footage of your facility: 32,000

4: Number of employees (full & part time): 32 / 2

5: Employee turnover rate: 2-3%

6: What types of major equipment do you use: CNC/Turning Centers

7: Do you utilize an apprentice program: No

8: Are you a private or public entity: Private

9: What are your shifts and work hours: 2 8 Hr. shifts 5 days a week

10: Are you design capable: No

11: Number of engineers: 2

12: Are you CAD capable: Yes

13: What are your approximate yearly sales: $3,000,000

14: Are you a union facility: No

15: What is your average APQP/PR lead times: 6 weeks depending on gaging.

16: Are you heat treat capable (internal or external): No

17: Do you advertise: No

18: Do you have safety and/or environmental concerns: Working on 14001

19: Do you use an internal CMM (or equivelent): Internal

20: Do you have a web site: No

21: Do you do your own trucking: No

22: Are you minority owned: No

ASD...

1. Type of business: Ecoat and powder paint facility
2. Which quality systems are you registered to: Working on QS 9000
3. Square footage of your facility: 85000 s/f
4. Number of employees: 125 (fulltime)
5. Employee turnover rate: 2-3%/y
6. What types of major equipment do you use: mainly Big three owned assy tables, some proprietary equipment like paint booth, oven etc.
7. No apprentice program in place although we hire students in summertime.
8. Private company
9. 2 shifts days and afternoons and some occassional midnights for special production
10. not design capable
11. 3 engineers, production quality and industrial
12. not CAD capable
13. Approximate yearly sales: 8 m
14. Unionized place
15.Average APQP/PR lead times: data not available at the moment
16. Non heat treat capable
17. No advertisement as far as I know.
18. We have health and safety program in place and we're trying to be EMS compliant 14000
19. No internal CMM although we have a qualified CMM tech inhouse.
20. no website
21. no carrier
22. Canadian owned company

[Cheryl]

1. Metal forming
2. QS-9000
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Yes
8. Private
9. 3 shifts / 8 hrs / 5 days
10. Yes


11.
12. Yes
13.
14. No
15.
16. Internal
17. no
18. no
19. Internal
20. Yes

[CarolX]

1. Type of business: Sheet metal fabrication
2. Which "quality" system are you registered to: ISO9002-1994
3: Square footage of your facility: 50,000sq
4: Number of employees (full & part time): 40
5: Employee turnover rate: low
6: What types of major equipment do you use: press brakes, punch presses
7: Do you utilize an apprentice program: no
8: Are you a private or public entity: private
9: What are your shifts and work hours: 2 shifts - 1st shift 6:30-4:30, 2nd shift 3:30 to 1:30
10: Are you design capable: yes
11: Number of engineers: 3
12: Are you CAD capable: yes
13: What are your approximate yearly sales: +10M
14: Are you a union facility: no
15: What is your average APQP/PR lead times: n/a
16: Are you heat treat capable (internal or external): yes
17: Do you advertise: no
18: Do you have safety and/or environmental concerns: no
19: Do you use an internal CMM (or equivelent): yes
20: Do you have a web site: yes
21: Do you do your own trucking: no
22: Are you minority owned: no

1. Type: Machining/Machine building/Testing
2. QS9000, ISO 9002. Seeking ISO 17025 ISO 14000
3. 50,000 sq. ft.
4. Approx 50 employees
5. Turnover rate: Unknown
6. Equipment: cnc and manual mills, cnc and manual lathes, all types of grinders.
7. Apprentice: No
8. Privately held
9. Two shifts 55 hr per week
10. We are design capable.
11. 6 engineers
12. cad capable
13. sales 10 million ??
14. non-union
15. We generally get less than a week to start new production jobs so were always playing catchup.
16. We use outside heat treat companies
17. We don't advertise
18. Working on it
19. We have 2 cmm's
20. We have a web site
21. We do some of our own trucking.
22. Our owner is part indian and have been pursuing minority status.