Sentence examples for efficiency benchmarking from inspiring English sources

To this aim, a number of countries have adopted incentive regulation models based on efficiency benchmarking.

International cost efficiency benchmarking played a central role in informing the Office of Rail Regulation's (ORR) determination of Network Rail's future funding during the 2008 periodic review (PR08) of the company's finances.

In industrialised countries, measuring efficiency, benchmarking and consequent improvement of performance have become a standard and a wide variety of instruments was developed, ranging from simple ratios and unit costing to more complex methodologies, such as Data Envelopment Analysis DEAandand Stochastic Frontier Analysis [8].

The paper presents a systematic approach to energy efficiency benchmarking in injection moulding, specifically addressing the impact of the mould.

Additionally, energy efficiency benchmarking of single processes give insight into the effectiveness of improvement measures and allow to identify best practice process and product designs.

A directive for energy efficiency benchmarking has already been published, however, due to its lack of defined energy indicators, it does not allow for a significant comparison.

A fall in efficiency (benchmarked against comparable wards and recent performance) earns a red or amber rating, to remind staff that they are lagging.

Out of the 64 sampled facilities, 20 (31 %) attained the 100%% efficiency benchmark; many Public/government facilities were found to be more efficient than private-for-profit and mission/NGO facilities.

Energy efficiency benchmarks, which many American and European cities have in place, are also an effective tool.

Government agencies such as Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA) have partnered with Hewlett Packard to design a new set of energy efficiency benchmarks.

In the short term, consumers will very likely turn to compact fluorescents, or C.F.L.'s, which already meet the new efficiency benchmark.