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A woman and a man heavy industry engineers stand in steel metal manufacturing factory, use digital tablet and having a discussion.
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  ZinetroN/Shutterstock, Gorodenkoff/ShutterstockThe Baldrige Excellence Framework’s Criteria helps manufacturers with today’s challenges, including strategy and resilience, operational effectiveness, supplier management, digitization and industry 4.0, and workforce issues.

**Step 1**

Improve your performance by ​partnering for feedback and recognition with your state or region​al Baldrige-based ​program affiliated with the nonprofitAlliance for Performance Excellence, a partner of NIST’s Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

**Step 2**

Conduct an assessment at the national level for feedback. Your company’s story may be eligible for our nation’s only Presidential award for organizational performance excellence!

Take these steps to get your business recognized and—more importantly—to

Increase revenue
	Acquire and retain contracts, grants, and customers
	Accelerate growth
	Compete more effectively in a global market​place**Get Started Today!**

Contact your localAlliance for Performance ExcellenceProgram.

Baldrige in Manufacturing

The Baldrige Program began in 1987 to support U.S. manufacturers in being competitive in a global market. Its Baldrige Excellence Framework© and Criteria have adapted with the changing times and can be especially helpful for the challenges of today’s manufacturers. Learn more from Baldrige Award recipients in Manufacturing.

MESA 2020 Baldrige Award Recipient in Small Business employee working steel pipelines to prevent corrosion.
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  MESAMESA 
2020, 2012, 2006 Baldrige Award Recipient

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  Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire ControlLockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
2012 Baldrige Award Recipient

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  Nestlé Purina PetCare CompanyNestlé Purina PetCare Company
2010 Baldrige Award Recipient

View allBaldrige Award Recipients.

What Organizations Are Saying

*sustains and maintains a succession of learning*

James E. Berry, President, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, 2012 Baldrige Award recipient
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Baldrige sustains and maintains a succession of learning—a model to stay out front of constant change.

It helps an organization to reset if its processes are not as efficient as they should be.

*growth line shifted exponentially after we started*

Terry May, President and Founder, MESA, 2020, 2012, 2006 Baldrige Award Recipient
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Our business has grown exponentially over the last 20 years and that growth coincides almost perfectly with our Baldrige journey. We’ve maintained an average growth rate of almost 10%. So, for anyone, who is wondering whether the Baldrige process is worth the time or money, I’d offer this. . . . we were on a path of growth before we started practicing Baldrige, but that growth line shifted exponentially after we started.

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