Improvement Strategies for Manufacturers Using the MESA MOM Capability Maturity Model

Abstract

Recently, the concept of smart manufacturing has emerged as a new paradigm, with which manufacturers can enhance their competitiveness in the market. Smart manufacturing paradigm can be viewed as the convergence of Information & Communication Technologies with human capabilities and manufacturing technologies. The new paradigm is expected to bring a new wave of performance improvements to manufacturing industries. However, manufacturing enterprises need to expend significant effort when preparing to adopt new technologies and realize their full benefits. MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Systems Association) created the Manufacturing Operations Management/Capability Maturity Model (MOM/CMM) to help evaluate the maturity and readiness of manufacturing enterprises from the factory operations perspective. However, the model, in its raw form, can be time-and resourceconsuming. It also lacks improvement strategies that use results of evaluation. The objective of this work is to restructure the questionnaire to reduce its completion time and to outline strategies through which a manufacturing enterprise can derive its improvement plans.

Industry 4.0 Maturity Models for SMES: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Their Adoption Based on the Literature Review

“…Leyh et al, 2016 Questions in a questionnaire should be formulated in a positive tone, to decrease the effort the participant has to put in. Li et al, 2017 The reduction of the number of questions in a questionnaire increases the rate of responds. Li et al, 2017 By grouping questions and converting them into multiple-choice questions, the number of words and questions included in the original model is reduced considerably.…”

“…Li et al, 2017 By grouping questions and converting them into multiple-choice questions, the number of words and questions included in the original model is reduced considerably. Li et al, 2017 The field of human is especially extensive and affects the entire company --> people of different divisions should ideally be included in the maturity assessment process.…”

Maturity model for determining digitalization levels within different product lifecycle phases

“…An exception is that of [54], which considers the Digital Transformation and Data and Intelligence dimensions but neglects technological aspects. • Organization: Apart from the models of [53] and [54], all other maturity models take the Organization requirement into account. • Social: Only a few maturity models include Social aspects (e.g., [45,50,62]).…”

Towards a Platform for Smart Manufacturing Improvement Planning

“…It measures the readiness in four aspects including ICT, performance management, organization, and information connectivity. Li et al [11] introduced an assessment model using MESA MOM Capability Maturity Model (CMM) [12] and suggested a way to reduce the time and resources consumption for applying the CMM to manufacturing enterprises by replacing the lengthy yes/no questionnaires with multiple-choice and providing various kinds of improvement strategies.…”