Manufacturing KPI Maturity Curve

Your foundry? Energy costs might be 60% of your variable costs - of course it trumps OEE.
Custom job shop? On-time delivery IS your competitive advantage.
Food processing during a recall? Quality metrics override everything else.

And here's what I missed: these priorities shift constantly.

Two people call in sick, suddenly labor efficiency matters most.
Safety incident happens, everything else gets deprioritized. Key customer calls with urgent order, the whole focus changes.

So I updated the framework. Instead of prescribing WHICH metrics to prioritize, it's about building the CAPABILITY to measure effectively at increasing levels of sophistication.

Energy might trump OEE.
On-time delivery could override everything.

Your priorities will shift daily based on what's hitting the fan.

The question isn't "what should I measure?" It's "do I have the measurement capability to adapt when priorities inevitably change?"