Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is an important metric for many companies' initiatives in operational excellence. As of Sept. 5, 2012, we have now benchmarked more than 350 different companies across a number of different strategic objectives, metrics, and operational excellence capabilities in the areas of people, process, and technology.

Our goal is to benchmark more than 1,000 companies by the end of the year and make this data available to our clients through an interactive benchmark data web portal. Through this portal, clients will be able to compare their performance to peers in metrics such as OEE, on-time and complete shipments, successful new product introductions, and cost of quality, to name a few. The portal will also have the capability to dynamically filter results in real time across many different demographics, including company revenue, geography, role in supply chain, and more.

However, we want to provide our readers a sneak peek into the data prior to the full portal launch.

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