MESA International
MESA is the first choice for industry professionals seeking innovative thinking and leadership to drive operations excellence. Its Member-driven working groups, industry events and educational forums:
- Enable members to connect, contribute, cultivate understanding, and exchange strategies to facilitate operations excellence
- Result in white papers, podcasts, guidebooks, research studies, webcasts and other resources that accelerate learning and knowledge transfer
- Provide best practices guidance to drive greater operations performance and profitability
In the nineties, MESA defined the world wide known 11 functions of MES. In 2003, MESA extended the MESA-11 into the
collaborative MES model. From 2007, MESA is focusing on Strategic Initiatives (MSI) and at the end of last year
the first 5 guidebooks on these MSI's were published (read more ...).
MESA also promotes the spread and use of standards like ANSI/ISA-95.
Regularly, MESA publishes new white papers and guidebooks, broadcasting
webinars on actual subjects, like "Manufacturing Operations Management: Insights for MESA Members"
and "Improving Performance in Difficult Times: MESA Study Shows How".

The latest Metrics Research of MESA International started September 2009. The first results are available. The survey is still open.