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Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association International (MESA, also known as MESA International) is a global, nonprofit community of manufacturing companies, information technology hardware and software suppliers, system integrators, consulting service providers, analysts, editors, academics and students. The shared goal of MESA members is to improve business results and production operations through optimized application and implementation of information technology and best management practices.
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MESA member companies and individuals span the full range of manufacturing from discrete to batch to mixed model to process. The association's efforts are focused on helping the manufacturing community to use information technology to provide real-time visibility into the production process.
MESA provides a variety of programs and events that work together to help manufacturers and producers to:
History
MESA was initially founded, in 1992, to promote manufacturing execution systems, its acronym and reach was later broadened to include operations and maintenance (O&M) and the integration of those systems with plant floor devices and control systems, as well as enterprise systems. In 2012, MESA merged with WBF (World Batch Forum), the standards organization responsible for B2MML and BatchML.
Activities
MESA members participate in and contribute to a number of activities:
|MESA Model
Participants
MESA includes member organizations such as:
People participating in MESA are typically in roles such as:
Sponsoring organizations
Keystone sponsors of MESA include Platinum keystone members as of October 2014:
Gold keystone members as of October 2014:
Related organizations
MESA works with a number of related organizations in its work to advance the state of the art in Operations and Maintenance: