Sanitation Benchmark Study

Informance complements our strategic efforts to migrate all business unites to common platforms.
Ron Christenson
Cargill, Corporate VP and CTO

EMI applications, such as Informance, generally begin to deliver value within days of being installed, offering an ROI that's measured in weeks and months, not years.
Allison Smith
AMR Research, Research Director

We consistently strive for best-in-class manufacturing performance. Informance enables effective continuous improvement, which is key to manufacturing flexibility, low variability, and, ultimately, outstanding customer value.
Ish Ahamed
Diageo Plainfield, VP Supply

Informance allows us to apply TPM loss elimination principles across our plants... We now have visibility of this information regardless of where you sit and can help replicate the improvement gains across multiple factories.
Tony Lippert
Unilever, Plant Manager

Schienvar calls the Informance Manufacturing Intelligence Suite used at L'Oreal a 'beautiful tool.'
Scott Schienvar
L'Oreal, Logistic Director

Informance gives us visibility into all of the facilities across our plant network to drive operational success.
Steve Belke
AkzoNobel, Supply Chain VP

The competitive climate is changing at an increasing pace. Managers are drowning in data, but starving for relevant information.
Carol Ptak
Pacific Lutheran University,
Former President APICS

By focusing on operator-identified problems, we addressed the obstacles from each operation within the value stream.
Pat Hatem
JohnsonDiversey, Plant Manager

We can show the cost of not spending capital at the push of a button.
Rich Mosgrove
Ventura, VP Manufacturing

Sanitation Benchmark Study

"How do sanitation practices affect manufacturing performance?"

For many companies, benchmarking manufacturing performance in relation to actual practices has been key to driving and sustaining higher performance levels.

When enterprises benchmark manufacturing performance and examine corresponding strategies of best-in-class performers (lines, plants, and even other companies), they close the gap between today's performance and what could be.

Benchmarking activities can be as simple as comparing shifts, lines and product categories. But when the benchmarking effort spans entire plants throughout the enterprise, and leverages insight from across the manufacturing community, there is a shift in perception about what is realistic and possible.

Informance is preparing to research food and beverage manufacturing performance, and the effects of sanitation practices on OEE. This research builds on a manufacturing benchmark study that was published in the fall of 2009.

We invite you to participate by taking the survey. Everyone who participates in the study will receive the executive summary, and can use this insight to understand how sanitation practices impact their manufacturing performance.

Researchers will analyze sanitation practices in relation to other performance metrics and compare and contrast practices of best-in-class, average and laggard manufacturers. The study results will enable you to understand:

The correlation between sanitation practices and OEE of different types of food and beverage manufacturing (proteins, sugars, liquids, etc.)

The top 5 best practices to reduce the effects of sanitation on OEE

The financial impact of sanitation practices

Informance benchmark studies leverage real-time manufacturing performance data. Manufacturers can use the benchmark study as a starting point to understand how they stack up against their peers and develop and action plan for operational improvement.