Engineering department metrics

Engineering department metrics
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Posted by: criebe ^®

10/24/2005, 16:47:05

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I am a manager of a Manufacturing Engineering dept. My company is wanting each dept. to put in place measurables or metrics. The typical thing is to have something in Time, Cost and Quality. For Time, each project has an estimated completion date. For Cost, each project has an estimated cost. Quality is harder. I'm thinking of leaving this as subjective. At the end of each project a group of 3 rate the project's quality. The group would probably be myself, a Production Manager/Supervisor, and someone from Quality. This what I'm thinking of doing but was interested if anyone out there already has metrics for a Manufacturing Engineering dept.

Chris

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Posted by: kelly_bramble ^®

10/27/2005, 09:48:32

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I have always worked within design engineering, however I have seen manufacturing organizations post thier performance metrics.
I do not know your industry or products, so I'll just share what I know.
These seem to be the tasks most tracked:
Products completed / delivered
Person-hours utilized
Rework
Rejections
scrap
All of the above is charted in a person-hours type chart along side a chart showing lost time due to the last three items in my tracked list. I have also seen metrics only presented in a person-hours utilization chart. This chart would show a bar chart with productive person-hours under lost or non-productive hours.
Tracking all of the above needs to be done cost effective. It seems little value to spend $$$ to identify and save $.

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