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Below are key questions electronics OEM equipment manufacturers should ask their EMS manufacturing partners to establish KPI performance metrics for OEM outsourcing programs:
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- What key metrics (operating indicators) does EMS use to hold EMS program management accountable?
- What is our escalation pathway if assigned EMS internal program management unable to execute?
- Which top 5 metrics do you feel are most important for you (the EMS provider) to measure our (customer) OEM program success?
- How is EMS direct labor efficiency measured?
- How is downtime for EMS production lines/work cells measured and tracked and, how are related reasons root-caused?
- How is EMS indirect labor (functional teams supporting manufacturing) efficiency measured? (Get our EMS supply chain indirect labor readiness evaluation)
- How do printed circuit board and systems debug EMS operators prioritize repair of failures?
- How is EMS inventory ‘on challenge’ tracked, and improved on?
