What are the best practices that will propel Wisconsin manufacturers to success in 2015? To what extent are the state's 10,000 manufacturers embracing world class manufacturing strategies to transform their companies?
Wisconsin's Next Generation Manufacturing Survey will provide answers and fresh insights to those and other questions. The web-based survey was launched today and can be accessed at www.WisconsinNGM.com.
Any Wisconsin manufacturing owner, chief executive officer or senior level executive is eligible to participate. The survey is confidential and takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. Deadline for participation is Sept. 30.
Survey participants will receive a personalized Next Generation Manufacturing Performance Report or a summary report after results are tabulated.
The survey will identify and measure key performance metrics and best practice strategies consistent with next generation manufacturing. The elements of next generation manufacturing are customer-focused innovation, global engagement, green/sustainability, supply chain management and collaboration, process improvement and talent acquisition and retention.
"Everyone - industry leaders, government officials, academia - understands that Wisconsin's manufacturing base must change if it's going to win in this new economy," said Mike Klonsinski, executive director of the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP). "The survey results will provide us with a scorecard to determine where we are today, and where we need to be to be considered a world class manufacturing center."
The survey is being conducted by the Manufacturing Performance Institute for WMEP and its partners, the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), Milwaukee 7, New North, Inc. and the Northwest Wisconsin Manufacturing Outreach Center (NWMOC).
The survey findings will be used to align and strengthen local and state policies, programs and infrastructure supporting the state's 10,000 manufacturers. Klonsinski said. Survey results will be released this fall, and will be widely disseminated to business leaders, elected officials, state policymakers, the media and general public. For more information on the survey, call 1-877-800-2124 or email results@wmep.org.
Manufacturing survey will provide benchmarks for Wisconsin
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