Top Advancers

Assessment Tool

Benchmarking is critical to continuous improvement, and doing it right may require outside expertise to deep dive your operations. CAMA, with the assistance of our industry experts, has developed a free online benchmarking assessment tool that will provide a high level understanding of your operational performance and highlight areas of opportunity.

Your results are confidential. You will receive a report with important performance indicators for each of the following areas of your business along with an overall score.

  • Plant Equipment
  • Business & Operational Software
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Supply Chain
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Workforce Development
  • Company Performance

You can complete the assessment as often as you would like and track the changes to your score as you go.

Statewide Averages

TOP
ADVANCERS

ASSESSMENT RESULTS
STATEWIDE AVERAGES
September 2021

AVERAGE

OVERALL

PERCENTAGE:

77.5%

AVERAGE PERCENTAGE

BY CATEGORY:

Plant Equipment: 79%

CONSIDERATIONS: Age of Equipment, Percentage of Total Revenue Reinvested in Capital Equipment, Deployment of New Technology

Business & Operational Software: 82%

CONSIDERATIONS: CAD, CAM, Use of Material Planning, Warehouse Management, Machine Monitoring and Performance Data Collecting, Other
Business Software

Continuous Improvement: 69%

CONSIDERATIONS: ISO, Production Part Approval Process, KPIs, On-Time Delivery Rate, Operational Equipment Effectiveness

Supply Chain: 53%

CONSIDERATIONS: Vendor and Supplier Collaboration, Just-in-Time, Vendor and Supplier Certificates, Design-for-Manufacturability Services

Marketing & Sales: 74%

CONSIDERATIONS: Use of CRM, Percentage of Quotes Converted to Sales, Marketing Budget, Marketing ROI Tracking, Website, Other Marketing Materials

Workforce Development: 81%

CONSIDERATIONS: Interns, Apprenticeships, Employee Healthcare Program, Education Reimbursement, Formal Health and Safety Program, Turnover Rate

Company Performance: 84%

CONSIDERATIONS: Overall Profit Performance, Profit Margins by Product Line and Customer