BEST

MANUFACTURING
KPIS
 First Pass Yield
Rate of right quality deliverables
coming out
of a process divided by the
number of
deliverables going into that
process over a
specified period of time.

Only good units with no rework

or scrap are counted as coming
out of an individual process.

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 FAI Success Rate

Number of First Article

Inspections (FAI) passed
first time

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 Internal & External
Lead Time

Actual time needed to cover the

complete step of an operation or
sum of all times needed to
perform a sequence of
operations.

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 Manufacturing
Productivity
Ratio between the amount of
goods and services produced
during a given time, and the given
time.

Quantity of deliverables achieved

(or to be achieved) per a resource
unit deployed to achieve these
deliverables.

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 Capacity
Utilisation Rate
Ratio between the capacity
of production means
effectively utilized to
manufacture, inspect and/or
test the current level of
production and the available
capacity of these production
means

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 Manufacturing
Equipment
Utilisation Ratio
(availability)
Ratio between the
productive time of the
equipment (or machine) and
the total available time for
that equipment.

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 Equipment
Breakdown Ratio

Ratio between the

downtime resulting from a
machine or equipment
breakdown or unplanned
maintenance versus the
total planned operational
time.

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 On-time
Manufacturing or
Manufacturing
Schedule Adherence

Number of items completed

(manufactured / inspected /
tested) on time in the period
/ Number of items planned
in the period

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 Scrap & Rework
Rate
Number of scrapped items
divided by the number
produced

Percentage of production parts

that were reworked or re-
processed to restore the part to
its approved design data, after
non-conformities were
generated during the
manufacturing cycle.
Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker
 Item Escape Rate
from internal
processes to
internal customer

Item Escape Rate from internal

processes to internal
customers

Michael Venner
Certification Auditing Specialist | Encourager | Keynote Speaker