Production volume okt 2025

Introduction

With production volumes (just like with floor space or number of employees), you can adjust your environmental scores for growth or decline and make comparisons more accurate. Until October 2025, the Environmental Barometer had four production volumes, the title and unit of which could be adjusted. This became increasingly restrictive. Therefore, on Thursday evening, October 9, 2025, the production volumes were transferred to a new structure:

• Common (sector-specific) production volumes will become unchangeable, such as ‘beds’ in healthcare and ‘students’ in education.
• Other production volumes will become your own ‘custom’ production volumes, the title and unit of which you can set yourself (fine-tuning>organisation).

The main advantages of the new situation:

• The sector-specific production volumes are uniform and cannot be accidentally changed.
• You can manage your own production volumes much better:
• They are fully customizable: title, unit, and explanation (all bilingual)
• You can add many more
• Key figures are automatically available per ‘own production volume’
• The title of a production volume makes the items in your key figures list more specific, such as: ‘… per bed capacity’ instead of the general ‘… per production volume’.

Correcting fixed <=> ‘own’ production volume

We have made every effort to correctly convert all user-defined production volumes. This was done semi-automatically, combining spelling variations, e.g., Visitor, visitors and Visitors. When fine-tuning company data, you can see whether your production volumes/units have been recognized as (industry-specific) fixed production volumes or whether they have become your own production volume. Do you want to correct an ‘own production volume’ to a fixed one? Enable fixed production volume and transfer the entered values ​​from your own production volume. Then, disable your own production volume. You can even remove ‘own’ production volumes entirely; from Fill in > Fine Tuning, click on Organization (Fine Tuning).

• This can also be done in reverse: add your ‘own’ production volume under Fine Tuning > Organization, copy the entered data, and disable the fixed production volume.

• If you see a ‘fixed’ production volume during fine tuning that doesn’t match your industry, go to ‘Barometers’ in the start menu and check the industry setting for your barometer. Want to change the industry? Click on the barometer title and select ‘Change’ in the top right corner.

If you’re dealing with multiple locations and/or multiple years for which you would like a change, please contact us.

Related Key Figure Adjustment

Thanks to the production volume adjustment, additional key figure options will be available starting October 10th. Many key figures will also be available per ‘own production volume’. This will result in longer key figure lists during fine tuning. To keep the key figures clear, we’ve adjusted the following:

• Variants of a key figure are grouped. This allows you to quickly see which flavors exist for that key figure.
• The list of key figures for fine-tuning is now sector-specific, so that, for example, a barometer in the office sector doesn’t have a key figure for mobile equipment. (Previously, you saw all key figures in each barometer.)

Comparing with the sector average using a selection of fixed company data

This may seem obvious, but comparing with the sector average is only possible based on fixed company data, not on ‘own production volumes’. You can almost always compare based on floor space, number of employees, and a single production volume that is standard for that sector. Note: an sector average is not available for all sectors.

Healthcare-specific

• Production volumes could have different units for each barometer: In a healthcare organization with a hospital and nursing homes, ‘weighted patient units’ and ‘beds’ were added together in the SOM barometer. In the new situation, beds and weighted patient units are separate production volumes.
• In consultation with healthcare user groups, it has been decided to use ‘occupied beds’ as the default across the healthcare sector. Each sector (hospital, elderly care, mental healthcare, etc.) has its own definition, which we will add to the explanation of this production volume.

Do you have any questions about this update? Email mail@stimular.nl
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