The 2011 Next Generation Manufacturing Study was conducted using an online questionnaire. Participants also had access to a PDF version of the questionnaire, which could be completed and mailed as a hard copy. A total of 824 manufacturers participated. Most responses were received from May through July 2011. Many MEPs across the United States supported the study, using various techniques to promote participation. Responses to the NGM Study were received by the Manufacturing Performance Institute (MPI), then entered into a database, edited, and cleansed to ensure answers were plausible, where necessary.
All respondent answers to the survey are confidential. As incentives, respondents who provided contact information were offered a copy of an NGM Performance Report, which shows their individual responses next to categories of respondents with organizational profiles comparable to their own. Respondents who wished to remain anonymous could provide contact information at a separate website and, as their incentive, receive a Data Report of study findings.
Click here to download the 2011 Next Generation Manufacturing Executive Summary.
