MICA Ratios - Maintenance Benchmarking - Find out how your maintenance operation compares

Data Requirements

Mica Ratios is based on analysis of information from your factory and other participants. We supply you with a simple spreadsheet for you to fill in some basic numbers on your maintenance operation. The data collection is straightforward and you should have most of the data required to hand.

Data required is as follows:

Comparison Parameters:

The period covered by the data supplied.
Total Plant Staff
Industry Sector
Operation Type
Level of Automation

Data Items:

Factory Replacement Value (£)
Conversion cost (£)
Maintenance expenditure (£)
Maintenance Direct Labour (£)
Labour % on Production Support & Projects
Ex-stock Maintenance Materials (£)
Directly Purchased Maintenance Materials (£)
Maintenance Contracts Total (£)
Maintenance Stores Inventory Value (£)
Number of Craftsmen
Number of Operators
Maintenance Supervisors
Number of Support Staff
Overtime Level (%)
Unplanned Work Level (%)
Preventive Maintenance Work Level (%)
Scheduled Work Level (%)
Work Schedule Compliance (%)
Jobs Per Week
Stockouts in Maintenance Stores (%).

Definitions of data elements required are available here.

Confidentiality

All information supplied is treated as strictly confidential and is used solely for the purpose of calculating maintenance ratios. The information is used to generate the ratios listed in the specific report for each site and to generate the aggregate (mean etc) ratios which appear in all reports.

Site specific information only appears in the report for that specific site and it is not possible to derive individual ratios or source data supplied by any site from the aggregated information. Participating sites will be listed in the comparison reports so that everybody can see who is included in the comparison. Where the comparison is broken down into smaller groups based on industry or manufacturing technology, the sites in each group will be listed. However, the size of these groups will be sufficiently large to make average results meaningful and care will be taken to ensure that no one site’s figures can be inferred from the results for the group.

Under no circumstances will the data or results for any site be communicated to any other company.