MESA-Recognized Businesses 

MESA-Recognized Businesses are companies that support the MESA community with their people, their time and their financial support. Such support is critical to making progress as a community and influencing change in industry for the betterment of all.  MESA-Recognized Businesses can be large or small, located in any geography and bring value to industry as a manufacturer/producer, solution provider, systems integrator, consultant or analyst, so long as all recognition parameters are met.

How to become a 'MESA-Recognized Business'

Recognized Businesses have made a commitment to the MESA community at the company level and invested in the in-depth training of our Global Education Program for their professionals.  To be recognized, a business must:

• Be a current MESA Premium Company member (Manufacturer/Producer or Solution Provider);
• Employ a required number of MESA-Recognized Practitioners based on organizational size.
  The program requirements are defined below:
  

  Business Size (Number of Employees)	Required Number of MESA-Recognized Practitioners
  1-25 employees	1
  26-1,000 employees	5
  1,001-10,000 employees	10
  10,000+ employees	20

• Deliver one (1) or more successful consulting, service or product-related Industrial IT/Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions projects annually*;
  • * Industrial IT/Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions service areas cover a wide array of technologies and solutions in the Manufacturing-IT domain, including but not limited to: MES, MOM, Manufacturing Intelligence, data collection, analytics, Quality, Asset Performance Management, Workflow automation, enterprise connectivity, plant-to-enterprise integration and more.  For questions on whether your domain expertise is a fit, please contact Megan Calles via email at megancalles@mesa.org or by phone at MESA Headquarters at +1-480-893-6883.
• Meet all applicable requirements of MESA's Recognition Standards;
• Complete the Recognized Business application form and pay application fee annually.  Application fee is $35 USD.
• MESA-Recognized Business Status is good for one year.
• Businesses that apply and are approved in January-September of a year. will expire in December of that year.
• Businesses that apply and are approved September-December of a year, will expire in December of the next year.