Draft Details

1.1        Applicability

The standard presents a comprehensive view of various aspects of business process improvement. This includes identifying critical Key Performance Indicators, how to measure them and the related data, mapping of current business processes, conducting value stream analysis, and identifying waste in business processes and value streams. The standard also offers guidance on how to leverage data-driven insights and benchmarking for decision making, and how to quantify waste in information logistics.

The standard extends its coverage to performing sensitivity analysis, providing guidelines for standardization and work instructions. It also addresses the crucial elements of change management and continuous improvement and optimization.

It is intended for use by manufacturer of all sizes that wish to improve their business processes for better digital adoption. It is however tailored to small to medium sized enterprises since they often lack the resources to perform their own evaluations

1.2        Terminology

In this Standard, “shall” is used to express a requirement, i.e., a provision that the user is obliged to satisfy in order to comply with the standard; “should” is used to express a recommendation or that which is advised but not required; and “may” is used to express an option or that which is permissible within the limits of the Standard.

Notes accompanying clauses do not include requirements or alternative requirements; the purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material.

Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as requirements.

Annexes are designated normative (mandatory) or informative (non-mandatory) to define their application.