Manufacturing Analytics

Industrial KPIs Every Plant Should Track

A practical list of production, reliability, maintenance, quality, energy, and safety KPIs for manufacturing plants.

Executive summary

Industrial KPIs help plants understand performance and prioritize improvement.

The best KPIs are clearly defined, trusted, and connected to action.

Production KPIs

Useful production KPIs include:

  • Production volume
  • Productivity
  • Working hours
  • Running factor
  • Throughput
  • Bottleneck utilization
  • Reliability KPIs

    Useful reliability KPIs include:

  • MTBF
  • MTTR
  • Availability
  • Number of failures
  • Downtime by equipment
  • Repeat failures
  • Maintenance KPIs

    Useful maintenance KPIs include:

  • Planned maintenance compliance
  • Preventive maintenance completion
  • Corrective maintenance backlog
  • Emergency work percentage
  • Schedule compliance
  • Quality KPIs

    Useful quality KPIs include:

  • Out-of-spec results
  • Average quality indicators
  • Standard deviation
  • First-pass yield
  • Complaint rate
  • Energy KPIs

    Useful energy KPIs include:

  • Specific energy consumption
  • Power demand
  • Energy by area
  • Compressed air losses
  • Power factor
  • Safety KPIs

    Useful safety KPIs include:

  • Incidents
  • Near misses
  • Safety observations
  • Follow-up closure
  • Safety talks and walks

Summary

A KPI is useful only if the team knows what it means and what to do when it changes.