AI & Digital Manufacturing Analytics worked example

Smart Factory Maturity Score with smart factory business impact score of 20 score: a worked example

Push smart factory business impact score up to 20 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a digital transformation lead needs to compare smart factory maturity across plants or value streams

The inputs for this scenario

  • Smart factory business impact score: 20 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 8)
  • Connected-process maturity score: 7 score (unchanged)
  • Analytics governance strength score: 6 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Smart factory maturity score = business impact score × connected-process maturity score × governance strength score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 11.95 maturity score for smart factory maturity score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 20 score for business impact score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 7 score for connected-process maturity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 6 score for analytics governance strength score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where smart factory business impact score sits at 8 score and the headline result is 7.15 maturity score, this scenario comes in 67.13% above the baseline at 11.95 maturity score.
  • It multiplies your business impact, connected-process maturity, and analytics governance scores, then rescales the product to a single smart-factory maturity index on your internal scoring band. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Smart factory maturity score: 11.95 maturity score (headline result)
  • Business impact score: 20 score
  • Connected-process maturity score: 7 score
  • Analytics governance strength score: 6 score

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Smart Factory Maturity Score calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.