Evidence that Baldrige Works

Below is a re-post from the Baldrige Blog.

Manufacturing Excellence: Guess What These Companies Have in Common?

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Dawn Bailey

Posted by Dawn Marie Bailey
“Can American Manufacturing Be Saved?” “U.S. Manufacturing: What Went Wrong?”

These are just two news headlines last week about the state of U.S. manufacturing. The news is not all bad, however; some manufacturing organizations are doing just fine. Check out the results below—all achieved by U.S. manufacturing companies in recent years. Can you guess what the companies have in common?

• Steady revenue growth from about $120 million to approximately $625 million over 12 years (MEDRAD; learn more here.)
• Overall scores measuring repeat sales and referrals consistently 60 percent or higher (MEDRAD;learn more here.)
• Best in the industry for its outstanding safety performance: recordable injury frequency rate 47 percent below the industry average; lost time injury frequency rate 45 percent below the industry average (MEDRAD; learn more here.)
• Overall customer satisfaction at or above 95 percent (Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC; learn more here.)
• Combined quality/reliability performance level at 99.9 percent for traditional customers (Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC; learn more here.)
• Error-free delivery rate of 99 percent or above (Cargill Corn Milling; learn more here.)
• More than $15 million saved from ideas generated by employees (Cargill Corn Milling; learn more here.)
• Operational reliability effectiveness rate, a ratio between actual production and commercial demand, at 95 percent (Cargill Corn Milling; learn more here.)

These companies were guided by the leading-edge practices of the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. Learn how your company can become more competitive, too. Get started here. “Baldrige-light” options are also available through a program near you.

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These examples provide evidence that Baldrige is working for manufacuturing. I'm anxious to see what results we might see in IPS!