MX Start is open to all UK manufacturing companies, please 
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to access to the website. MX Start is free to use.
MX Start is a tool designed to help manufacturing companies start their journey towards manufacturing excellence. The first step entails self assessing your company against best practice. This produces a feedback report that helps you identify target improvement areas. The feedback report links to the resource library where further information can be found to support you to make improvements.
Starting your manufacturing excellence journey:
Step 1: Where are we?
There are a number of assessments in key areas of a manufacturing business. Use these assessments to benchmark your company's practice and performance, and define the areas that are most important to your specific business circumstances. You can choose in which order to complete the assessments and how many you want to complete.
To start the assessments, please register / login.
Step 2: What can we improve?
Once you have completed an assessment, you can use the feedback report to identify potential key areas for improvement. The feedback report also provides guidance about best practice in the improvement areas to start you thinking about your own improvement journey.
Step 3: How can we improve?
The resource library provides a searchable database of resources that can be used to support your improvement.
MX Start is supported by:
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WMG is a multi-disciplinary academic unit of the University of Warwick, aiming to improve competitiveness through the application of value adding innovation, new technologies and skills deployment. Find out more about WMG, University of Warwick here.
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MAS-WM is a free government advisory service for manufacturing businesses in the West Midlands. Find out more about MAS-WM here.
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is a leading professional body for engineers. Find out more about the IMechE here.
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The IMechE, in collaboration with several partners, recognises and supports manufacturing success through its Manufacturing Excellence (MX) programme. Find out more about Manufacturing Excellence here.
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