Drawings and engineering
2.2 to 3.1 h
Time a skilled designer took to dimension and annotate a drawing from an existing 3D model, for three machined parts with 53 to 84 characteristics, timed in a controlled study.
Drawings and engineering
1 missing depth
One drawing in the same study left off a hole depth. The parts passed inspection against the drawing, and the whole lot was scrapped and remade.
Drawings and engineering
54%
Share of their time engineers say they actually spend designing. The rest goes to finding data, documentation and admin.
Drawings and engineering
44%
Share of engineering change orders caused by drawing errors at one manufacturer over one month.
Quoting
51% vs 41%
Win rate on new work for machine shops that send quotes within a day, against slower shops.
Quoting
67%
Share of part buyers who expect a quote back in under 24 hours.
Quoting
about 30%
Typical share of quotes a job shop wins.
Inspection and quality
about 1 min
Per characteristic to balloon a drawing by hand: 30 to 40 minutes for a typical drawing with 30 to 40 characteristics.
Inspection and quality
2 to 8 h
Per drawing for manual ballooning.
Inspection and quality
2.2% vs 3.3%
Scrap and rework as a share of sales at the best machine shops against the rest.
Inspection and quality
53%
Drop in quality escapes at one large aerospace company after it moved to ballooning and first article tools.
Shop data
98%
BOM accuracy the classic MRP II Class A standard calls for. Below that, planning runs on bad data.
Shop data
99.5%
Inventory record accuracy Oliver Wight calls the world-class standard today, as a minimum.
Shop data
65%
Share of inventory records that were wrong across about 370,000 records in a large measured study. Records drift unless someone fixes them.
Shop data
3 to 8%
Exact duplicates in a typical material master, about 15% counting near-duplicates.
Margins and output
8.4¢
Pretax profit per dollar of sales at US manufacturers with $10M to $25M in assets. Small leaks matter at that margin.
Margins and output
75.9%
US manufacturing capacity utilization, against a long-run average of 78.2%. There is room to ship more from the same plants.
Margins and output
$50,000
Yearly admin savings a contract CNC shop reported after replacing its aging ERP.
People and wages
$50.05/h
US median wage for a mechanical engineer. Mechanical drafters earn a median of $34.40.
People and wages
$37.86/h
US median wage for a cost estimator. Machinists: $28.24. Inspectors and testers: $23.35.
People and wages
70%
Share of what an employee costs that is wages. Benefits and payroll taxes make up the rest, so an hour costs more than the wage.
People and wages
1.9M
Manufacturing jobs that could go unfilled by 2033, out of up to 3.8 million needed.
