Research
State of Continuous Improvement Survey 2026
12 multiple choice questions on how your site raises problems, acts on ideas, runs audits and reviews KPIs. It takes under 5 minutes. The results become a free report on what normal looks like across manufacturing sites.
Who it is for
People who run or support improvement at a manufacturing site: CI and lean leads, plant and operations managers, quality and EHS managers, maintenance, supervisors and team leads.
What happens to your answers
- We publish results only as totals across everyone who answered, for example the share of sites that close a typical problem within 2 to 7 days. No single answer is ever shown or shared.
- Nothing is published until at least 100 people have answered. An industry or site size group is shown only when 30 or more people in it answered.
- We do not ask for your name, company or site, and there are no free text boxes.
- Email is optional. If you leave one, we use it once to send you the report, then delete it. It is stored apart from your answers and is never added to a mailing list or shared.
The report states the survey dates, the number of answers behind every figure, and that the answers are self-reported, not a random sample.