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Statistical Programs Offered by AGMA

• Monthly Market Trend Report
• Operating Ratio Report (View a sample report)
• Wage & Benefit Survey (View a sample survey)

See where you stand in the industry!  Members of AGMA have an opportunity to participate in our Statistical Programs – FREE!

Taking advantage of these programs ensures that your company will receive valuable decision-making information.  AGMA and our consultants will collect and compile the historical statistical data.  We want to let you know these programs are available, because this information is provided ONLY to participants.

The Monthly Market Trend Report (MMTR)

This report is conducted under the guidance of the AGMA Statistical Council, and is mailed to a specified individual at each participating company with a pre-printed return envelope.  Only the Statistician at the American Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) opens any mail returned in these envelopes.  This report is highly confidential, timely and accurate and can help you follow market trends, identify turning points and forecast.

Participate!  Your Competition does.

Monthly Market Trend Reports are published under eight different Product Groups.  If your company manufacturers any of these products, you may participate in the monthly survey and receive the results:

• Coarse Pitch Gears
• Fine Pitch Gears
• Worm/Speed Reducers & Gearmotors
• Concentric Gearmotor/Motoreducer Products
• Shaft Mounted Speed Reducers
• High Speed Units
• Offset Parallel Shaft and Right Angle Speed Reducers
• Mechanical Adjustable Speed Drives

The MMTR will provide benchmark statistics by which a company can assess its competitiveness in the gear/flexible coupling industry.  An Annual Summary covering the calendar year is also distributed.  Each of the eight product groups in the MMTR has a separate report.

The Operating Ratio Report (ORR)

Download the 2007 ORR Questionnaire

Operating Ratio Report Objective
To help gear manufacturers improve their financial results by establishing “typical” financial performance targets and by analyzing how “high profit” companies in the industry achieve their success.

Operating Ratio Report Assesses What is Most Important 
Few gear manufacturers have unlimited resources to invest in their operation.  Each year owners are faced with making resource allocation decisions that will result in improved profitability.  One of the major barriers is the inability of managers to shift resources from historically established operating procedures.  The Operating Ratio Report can provide you with information that details industry performance norms as well as the importance of each performance factor.  Identifying high performance factors that have great impact on profitability allows managers to focus their attention and deploy their resources in the most efficient and effective manner.  The results of the Operating Ratio Report help you prioritize where an investment of resources will have the greatest impact on improving profitability.

Your data will be treated confidentially by the Mackay Research Group.  Because you send the survey directly to Mackay Research Group, no one from AGMA or its staff has access to individual company data.  Participant data is aggregated in a manner that prevents identification of any individual company.

The ORR is conducted under the direction of the AGMA Statistical Council.  The Operating Ratio Report is sent to participating firms only.

The Wage & Benefit Survey (W&B)

This report is conducted under the guidance of the AGMA Statistical Council and is returned directly to “Dr. Mike” Bradley, AGMA’s Economic Consultant.

Management of labor is an essential part of success.  The Wage & Benefit Survey is a way to rate your competitiveness in the labor market.  This report will also provide information for labor contract negotiations and for guidance in developing better employee benefit plans to attract and retain employees.  The Survey provides a wealth of information about the gear industry in clear, easy to read graphics and text.

• Is your workforce important to your business?
• Are you paying too much or too little for your machinists?
• Did you give an average, or above average, raise last year?

The answers to these and many other questions are provided in the AGMA Statistical Programs for FREE to participating members.  Take advantage of these valuable benchmarks and see where you stand in the industry.

Call Joe Franklin at AGMA, (703) 838-0050, and inquire about joining our Statistical Council and help us develop and maintain the statistical programs of the Association.