Top Shops
Leveraging Benchmarking
This award-winning shop looked to Top Shops benchmarking data to help guide its continuous improvement efforts.
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Top Shops 2013: Davan Manufacturing
Learn about this year’s Machining Technology Honors Program Winner and its approach to capital equipment purchases.
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Top Shops 2013: JD Machine
Benchmarking is important to our 2013 Business Strategy Honors Program winner.
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Top Shops 2013: Micro-Matics
Our Human Resources Honors Program winner for 2013 uses a variety of tools to both retain good employees and keep them engaged.
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Top Shops 2013: WSI Industries
Our Shopfloor Practices Honors Program winner for 2013 thoughtfully considers the best shopfloor practices to support its advanced machining capabilities.
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What are the Defining Business Characteristics of Top Shops?
Top Shops tend to outshine other shops in a number of financial areas. Sometimes, they apply alternate business strategies to achieve higher performance levels.
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See the Top Shops Executive Summary
This digital report compares responses from the elite Top Shops benchmarking group with the other shops that participated in the survey.
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Top Shops 2012: Toth Technologies
Because this multi-niche shop does more than precision machining, management refers to it as a “Manufacturing Technology Center,” not a “shop.”
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Top Shops 2012: McCoy
The two prime reasons for this smallish company’s success are establishing an effective process and having a lean manufacturing mindset.
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Top Shops 2012: Hoyt USA
Lean manufacturing has enabled this company to become more efficient at producing its advanced bows.
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