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The latest VDMA marketing survey 2025 in mechanical engineering offers comprehensive insights into the current marketing landscape. Compared to the previous period, the number of participants has increased by 42%.

The workshop of the working group has set itself the goal of examining and proposing a system of key performance indicators broken down by company divisions.

The stable participation of companies in updating the accounting benchmarks allows them to be evaluated and analyzed.

A possible interpretability in the interfirm comparison results from the data on which it is based. Here, therefore, attention must once again be paid to the meaningfulness of a figure.

In inter-company comparisons, particular attention must be paid to structural and formal comparability - only from this can the interpretability be derived.

In the second year of the pandemic, the number of participants could again be increased significantly. The quality offensive of the benchmarks is thus not yet completed but on a very good way. More and more companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector are facing up to the issues of quality assurance and are taking up benchmarking for this purpose.

The VDMA Sales Benchmarks determine characteristic values for capital goods sales every three years. All VDMA member companies can download the commentary with statistical appendix free of charge.

The VDMA benchmarks prove that service contributes to success with a multiple of the average company revenue. Services make a significant contribution of almost 20 percent to revenue.

The structure of the participating companies has changed significantly in some cases.

The results of the VDMA-Benchmarks Manufacturing and Assembly 2019 show that there is a need for action especially in two areas of mechanical and plant engineering’s shop floors.

The VDMA-Benchmarks Marketing reflect the structural marketing budgets of mechanical engineering budgets and provide insights into their marketing and communication activities. The KPIs are determined every four years.

The division into functional areas continues to be the key factor in personnel structure. As in the previous years, the majority of employees (68%) worked in technical fields

We have fundamentally revised the VDMA Benchmarks Human Resources in a practical workshop and included some "hard" figures as well as new information. The current result is now available to you as a member.

The VDMA-Benchmarks Materials Management have been newly determined in 2017 and reflect the current trends, structures and KPIs in procurement, incoming goods and storage.

By July 1 of every year, VDMA surveys its members to ask about the development in procurement costs of the most important material groups in mechanical engineering and the prospects for the next 12 months.

The VDMA benchmarks on development and design 2018 provide an overview of the current status and trends in the organisation of engineering teams in mechanical and plant engineering.