No. ISO 22400 does not define universal target values, pass-fail thresholds, or mandated benchmark levels for KPIs.
Its role is to standardize how manufacturing KPIs are defined and calculated so results are more comparable and less ambiguous across systems, lines, and sites. That helps with semantic consistency, but it does not answer what a “good” value should be for your operation.
Target values and thresholds usually have to be set by the manufacturer based on factors such as:
- process capability and stability
- product mix and routing complexity
- batch size, changeover frequency, and scheduling reality
- asset age, maintenance condition, and automation level
- quality requirements and inspection intensity
- data collection method, latency, and accuracy
- site-specific business priorities such as throughput, yield, service level, or cost
In regulated and long-lifecycle environments, this matters because a threshold is often not just an analytics choice. It may affect escalation workflows, exception handling, review cadence, and evidence expectations. If thresholds are used operationally, they should be controlled, traceable, and reviewed through normal change control rather than treated as fixed industry facts.
There is also a practical brownfield issue: two plants can claim to track the same KPI while using different event models, downtime coding, start-stop rules, rework treatment, or master data structures. In that situation, adopting the ISO 22400 definition can improve alignment, but any target comparison is still only as reliable as the underlying data model and integration quality.
So the short answer is:
- ISO 22400 can help standardize KPI meaning and calculation.
- It does not prescribe the target you should hit.
- Any threshold still needs local governance, validation, and operational context.
If you need target values, they typically come from internal baselining, customer or program requirements, process qualification history, benchmarking done with care, or management policy. None of those are supplied by ISO 22400 itself.