Manufacturing Excellence Award
The Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Award is a benchmarking competition that recognizes best practices from manufacturing companies. The MX Award is the core offer and statutory purpose of the non-profit association for production and logistics management (VPLM) eV, which was founded on October 21, 2004 by a constituent meeting at the Technical University of Berlin . The aim of the association is to promote business in Germany as a production location through the exchange of science and practice as well as strengthening international cooperation. Under the umbrella of the VPLM, the MX network has developed in recent years, which, in addition to the MX Award, brings together business and science in other formats.
history
The idea of the MX Award, with which exemplary success methods (so-called best practices ) of companies are awarded, has its origin in Great Britain . The concept of the MX Award was transferred to Germany with the founding of the VPLM in 2004 and the establishment of a research project of the same name in the logistics department of the Technical University of Berlin. Various German companies (including Gildemeister (today DMG MORI AG ), SAP , Siemens ) and scientific institutions (Technical University Berlin, RWTH Aachen University ) supported the establishment of the VPLM. Since 2005, the main event of the MX Award has been given annually to outstanding applicant companies under the direction of Raimund Klinkner. In addition to this regular award of best practices, a cross-sector network for representatives from science and practice has developed in recent years. In keeping with the tradition of British origin, international cooperation has also been a statutory objective of the non-profit initiative from the very beginning. On the occasion of various network meetings, current topics from the field of production and logistics management are discussed and former winning companies are visited on site.
MX Award
The annual MX Award is the foundation of the VPLM eV and forms the basis of the association. As part of the MX Award, companies are assessed in a multi-stage application process and award-worthy best practices are awarded in various categories. By participating, companies can also obtain comprehensive feedback from independent assessors and compare it with set benchmarks. Participation in the benchmarking competition is based in the first step on a critical self-analysis, which is carried out using an online questionnaire. Scientific experts from the Technical University of Berlin select the best companies from all the questionnaires submitted for the second round of the competition. The qualified companies are then visited by independent assessors from science and industry at their production sites and subjected to a more in-depth concept analysis. At the end of the application process, the MX jury, which is made up of academic representatives and former winning companies, awards the award in various categories (overall victory, customer orientation , product innovation , process innovation , information technology , leadership culture and employee integration , quality management , logistics and network management and the special prize to the Best SME ). The company, which has stood out holistically with its solution approaches across all categories, will be recognized as the overall winner and chosen with all other winners at the award ceremony. All participating companies will then receive free, detailed feedback from the assessors and scientists at the Technical University of Berlin.
patronage
The Manufacturing Excellence Award has been under the patronage of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) since 2015 . The Parliamentary State Secretary and Commissioner for SMEs, Iris Gleicke , is the patron of the Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Award.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Association for Production and Logistics Management (VPLM) eV
- Presentation of the research project on the homepage of the TU Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the Manufacturing Excellence Award in Great Britain
- ↑ Klinkner, Raimund / Straube, Frank (Ed.) MX Report 2005. Recognize strengths - set standards. Universitätsverlag der Technische Universität Berlin, Volume 1 of the Manufacturing Excellence Award publication series, p. 8 (2005)
- ↑ Klinkner, Raimund : "Faster processes alone do not help", In: VDI nachrichten No. 10 (2017)
- ^ "Excellent leadership" , In: VDI nachrichten No. 11 (2017)
- ↑ WeltN24 : MX Award: Recognize strengths - set standards
- ↑ Steinmüller, Peter : "Award for Excellence", In: VDI nachrichten No. 9 (2017)
- ↑ BMWi homepage ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
