Benchmarking is a means of assessing the performance of an organisation industry or sector by comparing its performance with others in similar or the same sector. Benchmarking can be used to:
- Assess management effectiveness and business performance
- Compare pre-defined factors or parameters amongst a group of the same organisations to identify areas of improvements.
MCP has provided benchmarking services to a wide range of clients and business sectors. Examples include:
- Benchmarking individual companies against best practice criteria
- Benchmarking performance of a company contracted to provide a maintenance service
MCP provide benchmarking and assessment services in a number of business functions and also provide bespoke benchmarking studies. Starting in 1987 when MCP developed the AMIS maintenance audit, MCP has built a suite of benchmarking and assessment tools which include:
- AMIS Maintenance Audit
- Spare Parts and Materials Management
- Manufacturing Excellence
- CMMS effectiveness audit
- Facilities Management (FMScan)
- Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM)
- Skills Assessment
- Training Needs Analysis
- Contract Review
- CMMS Effectiveness
- Health and Safety compliance