Industrial Equipment Best Practices Benchmarking

Industrial Equipment Manufacturers: Benchmark Your Business

Autodesk and independent research firm Tech-Clarity have partnered to identify the key factors that characterize top-performing industrial equipment manufacturers (based on a 2012 survey of 378 companies in the industry). This short questionnaire provides you with an opportunity to compare your development process with other companies, and identify opportunities to adopt the best practices of top performers. Top performers are those companies that have achieved higher revenue growth and profit margin expansion over the past 2 years compared to the majority of respondents.

This survey will usually take less than 3 minutes to complete.

1) Which statements best reflect your company’s current strategy? (Select up to 3)

Compete directly in global market   Compete globally via partnerships   Partner with local manufacturing   Differentiate products through innovation   Differentiate products through customization   Differentiate by brand/reputation   Compete as a low-cost provider   Compete as a “green” supplier   Compete through flexible/agile manufacturing   Improve revenue or margins through aftermarket service/parts

2) Which statements best reflect your company’s current engineering and product development approach? (Select up to 3)

Modular or platform design (base design for reuse/mix and match subsystems)   Concurrent design (design product and manufacturing process concurrently)   Develop a single, global product   Use rules-based design or configuration to automate processes   Optimize products using simulation early in the design phase   Customize/tailor products to order (assemble, make, or engineer to order)

3) What is your company's percentage of revenue from new products (less than 3 years old) over the past 12 months? (Feel free to estimate)

Less than 5%   6 to 10%   11 to 20%   21 to 30%   31 to 40%   41 to 50%   More than 50%   Prefer not to say/don't know

4) How accurate are your company's quotes for a configured or custom product? (Estimate if needed)

Within 10%   Within 11 to 15%   Within 16 to 25%   Within 26 to 50%   More than 50% inaccurate   Not applicable to our products/don't know

5) What primary system(s) are important to your company in order to support design and product development? (Select up to 5)

ERP   Product lifecycle management (PLM)   Product data management (PDM)   3D CAD   2D CAD   Manufacturing process management (MPM)   Factory layout/simulation   Product configurator/design automation   Building Information Modeling (BIM)   Simulation   Internally developed system   Spreadsheets   Text-based documents   None