The aim of this paper is to describe how performance measurement of production ramp-up has been dealt with so far, and to suggest improvements in the measurement procedure. A performance measurement framework supporting production ramp-up evaluation is proposed. Based on the results from both theoretical and empirical studies it can be concluded that ramp-up complexity, ramp-up preparations and activities performed during ramp-up highly influences the production ramp-up performance. When evaluating production ramp-up by comparing actual versus planned performance no information regarding how the objectives were met is given. This also means that no information on what to improve in the ramp-up process is achieved. To enable this information from a performance evaluation of a ramp-up it is therefore essential that ramp-up complexity, ramp-up preparations and activities performed during ramp-up considered. This in turn also means that it is important to identify measures for these areas.