Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International is a worldwide not-for-profit community of manufacturing companies, information technology hardware and software suppliers, system integrators, consulting service providers, analysts, academics and students. The combined purpose is to improve business production operations through optimised application and implementation of information technology and best management practices.

MESA’s area of interest includes the full range of manufacturing environments from discrete to batch to process. The association efforts are focused on information technology use to support the real-time events occurring during the production process and how this same information can be used to support broader company and value chain objectives such as lean manufacturing, collaborative supply chain management and regulatory compliance.

MESA provides a variety of programmes and events that work together to help manufacturers:
• Better understand what is possible in terms of information technology to improve profitability, business value, agility and customer satisfaction
• Engage ‘best practices’ to see what other manufacturers have done to be successful
• Approach investment decisions in technology, learning how to be more successful with technology deployment.

MESA’s membership programme and events present to manufacturing businesses those best practices used to solve critical problems within their corporation and those that extend to their suppliers, customers and partners. As members, both manufacturers and information system providers benefit from working together on solving critical business issues and furthering the state of the industry in the use of integrated information systems.