Waco Plant
Waco, TX
Maturity lever: Your maturity · as of June 24, 2026
Illustrative figures for a fictional company. The method is real; the company is not. Every dollar traces through a measure and a finance line to EBITDA. Benefit is scaled to each use case's current maturity from the survey.
Maturity lever
Benefit scales to how much headroom each use case actually has.
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Waco: standard work is the unlock
Waco, TX, US
This is the financial close of the Waco Plant worked example. The survey report shows the gap signature; the use-case roadmap turns it into a portfolio. This page scores that portfolio against a financial baseline and rolls it up across the company.
EBITDA against the baseline
Illustrative figures for a fictional company. The method is real; the company is not. Every dollar traces through a measure and a finance line to EBITDA. Benefit is scaled to each use case's current maturity from the survey, so a use case the plant has already mastered captures less from the same improvement. Use the maturity lever above to compare against industry-typical and best-in-class.
Waco: standard work is the unlock
Waco's gap signature is the absence of standard work: high variance within departments, weak supervisor governance, inconsistent operator adherence. The roadmap concentrates on establishing and reinforcing standards before anything else.
Split into initiatives below, the standalone values add up to more than the plant can actually capture at once. The de-conflicted total removes that double counting, then allocates the realistic number back to each initiative.
Things to notice below
- Move the maturity lever at the top. Waco's per-use-case maturity sits below industry-typical, so its real number runs higher than a typical plant's would. That extra is genuine headroom the plant has not captured yet. Switch to best-in-class to see how little would remain once it does.
- The Standard Work Foundation initiative is the largest single lever and a prerequisite for the others.
- Notice the gap between the sum of standalone values and the de-conflicted joint value. That haircut is the double counting the engine removes.
How the value de-conflicts across initiatives
Run on their own, these initiatives would each claim their full standalone value. Run together against one P&L, they compete for the same finance lines, so the realistic combined value is lower. The engine removes that double counting, then allocates the de-conflicted total back to each initiative pro-rata.
Define, document, and stabilize standard work across engineering and operations.
Bring process capability and quality routines under control.
Supervisor governance and operator adherence to the new standards.
Solid bar = allocated (de-conflicted) value. Faint bar = standalone value.
Investment gate — net of what it costs to deploy
Each initiative needs capabilities to deliver. Those roll up to solution budget lines (an MES, a CMMS…) bought once even when several initiatives share them, plus standalone programs. Cost, deploy lead time, and a 7-year NPV at 8% turn de-conflicted benefit into a net investment case.
| Initiative | Timing | Investment | Marginal NPV | Payback |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Work Foundationbelow gate | live y3 · 3y deploy | $11.6M | -$2.0M | 6.1y |
| Quality Stabilization | live y3 · 3y deploy | $7.8M | +$1.0M | 5.0y |
| Frontline Discipline & Adherencebelow gate | live y3 · 3y deploy | $5.0M | -$31K | 4.7y |
Budget lines (93) · 61 shared, funded once
Operational impact (functional KPIs)
The same portfolio, viewed as movement in operational KPIs rather than dollars. Rolled up by SQDCI category.
Top KPI movements
71 KPIs movedSafety Culture Maturity Index
+86.3%
COPQ
-50.7%
Supplier Performance Score
+36.0%
TCoQ
-32.9%
Control Plan Change Cycle Time
-24.0%
By strategic category
7 KPIs · 7↑
Top: +86.3% · Safety Culture Maturity Index
17 KPIs · 16↑ / 1↓
Top: -50.7% · COPQ
5 KPIs · 4↑ / 1↓
Top: -7.4% · Production Volume
10 KPIs · 7↑ / 3↓
Top: -6.2% · TCO
1 KPI · 1↑
Top: -1.0% · Inventory Carrying Cost %
14 KPIs · 11↑ / 3↓
Top: +18.0% · Certification Compliance Rate
8 KPIs · 8↑
Top: +15.1% · OEE
9 KPIs · 7↑ / 2↓
Top: +36.0% · Supplier Performance Score
Where the value comes from
Each ribbon flows EBITDA impact from a use case (left) to a P&L or balance-sheet section (right). Thickness = annualized dollar contribution. Hover for the exact value.
Finance-line composition
How the annual EBITDA impact decomposes across the P&L and balance-sheet sections. Cost-line reductions and revenue-line gains both read green.
Top value drivers
Use cases ranked by EBITDA contribution across the portfolio. The maturity tag shows the headroom multiplier this use case earned.
Individual KPI movements
Every KPI that moved, sorted by magnitude. Expand any KPI for its per-measure and per-use-case breakdown.
All KPI movements
sorted by absolute changeHow KPI deltas are computed
Each KPI's % change is a small-delta linearization across its formula roles: numerator measures contribute +, denominator measures contribute −, factors contribute +. Per-measure deltas sum the contributions of every use case touching that measure (with the portfolio cap already applied). Direction-of-improvement is inferred per KPI from its primary measure: a downward move on a "lower is better" KPI reads green, the same move on a "higher is better" KPI reads red. Compound formulas defined in metrics.formula_expression are linearized — values may overstate. KPI baselines (the from X to Y framing) come in a later release.
This value map was derived from the ExampleCo Waco Plant survey responses and use-case roadmap. The same engine produces a CFO-grade value map for any real company that completes the surveys and curates a portfolio.