Citation:
Colin New, Marek Szwejczewski, Keith Goffin, Rolf Pfeiffer, Bertram Lohmühler, UK/Germany Factory Performance Comparison, Cranfield School of Management Report, 1997
Abstract:
The Management Today Best Factory Awards in association with Cranfield School of
Management have been successfully running in the UK in their current format
since 1992. The purpose of the awards is to recognize and reward manufacturing
excellence in the UK. Previous winners of the coveted ‘Factory of the Year’
award include Bonas Machine Company in 1995 and Van den Bergh Purfleet Foods
factory in 1996. However, in addition to recognising manufacturing excellence,
the programme collects detailed benchmarking data on manufacturing performance
from over two hundred companies each year. This has enabled an extensive
database to be created, against which individual manufacturing plants can be
judged. In addition the database is being for research purposes - investigating
manufacturing performance in various industrial sect