Digital-maturity self-assessment for manufacturers
Know where your plant stands. Then fix the right thing first.
Sixteen dimensions on one 0 to 5 scale, a target band, and the three priorities your business already agreed. Twenty minutes later: a scored report, a ranked roadmap, and a two-page PDF for the board.
01How it works
Twenty minutes. No account, no database, nothing leaves the browser.
- 1
Profile and priorities
Name the plant, choose a target band, and rank up to three business priorities. The roadmap is weighted by them.
- 2
Score sixteen dimensions
Pick the band that describes today on a ruler, one plain-language descriptor per band. Progress saves in your browser as you go.
- 3
Roadmap and export
A star rating, a radar across all three blocks, and a gap chart ranked by what to fix first. Print it to PDF for the leadership team.
02The framework
Three building blocks, eight pillars, sixteen dimensions, every one scored on the same 0 to 5 scale.
| ID | Dimension | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Process3 dimensionsHow the plant creates value: the flow of data through operations, the supply chain and the product lifecycle. | |||
| D1 | Vertical IntegrationOperations | Operations | How production data flows between shop-floor systems and business systems. |
| D2 | Horizontal IntegrationSupply chain | Supply chain | How information moves between the plant and its suppliers, logistics partners and customers. |
| D3 | Integrated Product LifecycleProduct lifecycle | Product lifecycle | Whether design, production, service and end-of-life data form one connected thread. |
| Technology9 dimensionsAutomation, connectivity and intelligence, looked at on the shop floor, across the enterprise and in the facility. | |||
| D4 | Shop Floor AutomationAutomation, Shop floor | Automation, Shop floor | How much of the production work is done by equipment rather than by hand. |
| D5 | Enterprise AutomationAutomation, Enterprise | Automation, Enterprise | How much of the business workflow, from order to invoice, runs without manual steps. |
| D6 | Facility AutomationAutomation, Facility | Automation, Facility | How building services such as air handling, lighting and power are controlled. |
| D7 | Shop Floor ConnectivityConnectivity, Shop floor | Connectivity, Shop floor | Whether machines, sensors and controllers on the floor can exchange data. |
| D8 | Enterprise ConnectivityConnectivity, Enterprise | Connectivity, Enterprise | How well business systems such as planning, finance and quality talk to each other. |
| D9 | Facility ConnectivityConnectivity, Facility | Connectivity, Facility | Whether the building's meters, sensors and services are networked and readable. |
| D10 | Shop Floor IntelligenceIntelligence, Shop floor | Intelligence, Shop floor | How production data is turned into decisions about quality, maintenance and flow. |
| D11 | Enterprise IntelligenceIntelligence, Enterprise | Intelligence, Enterprise | How business data is used for forecasting, planning and management decisions. |
| D12 | Facility IntelligenceIntelligence, Facility | Intelligence, Facility | How building and energy data is used to reduce cost and prevent failures. |
| Organisation4 dimensionsWhether people, leadership and governance are ready to carry a transformation and keep it going. | |||
| D13 | Workforce Learning & DevelopmentTalent readiness | Talent readiness | How the organisation builds the digital and technical skills of its people. |
| D14 | Leadership CompetencyTalent readiness | Talent readiness | Whether leaders understand digital transformation well enough to drive it. |
| D15 | Inter- and Intra-Company CollaborationStructure & management | Structure & management | How well teams work across departments and with outside partners on improvement. |
| D16 | Strategy & GovernanceStructure & management | Structure & management | Whether there is a digital strategy with owners, budgets and measured outcomes. |
03The arithmetic
Deliberately simple, so every number on the report can be explained in one sentence.
- Gap
- max(0, target − current)
- How far a dimension sits below the target band. Dimensions at or above it score zero.
- Fit
- Σ wₖ · affinity / (2 · Σ wₖ)
- How strongly it serves your ranked priorities, with weights of 1.0, 0.7 and 0.4.
- Score
- gap × (0.5 + fit)
- What the roadmap is sorted by. The top five are the first moves.
Read the full methodology, including how ties break and what provisional means.