SMA Wins Prestigious Manufacturing Excellence Award in Two Categories

“We are delighted that the experts on the jury have recognized our commitment with two awards,” said Dr. Jürgen Reinert, SMA CTO and COO. “In particular, this is owing to our dedicated employees, efficient production processes, innovative product development processes and clear focus on productivity, the reduction of fixed costs and stringent change management. SMA thus reinforces its leading position in the solar industry and shows that, two years after a company transformation with profound changes, it is ideally equipped to survive in a challenging market and pave the way for its customers to an increasingly digitized energy world.”

Every year, the MX Award competition awards prizes to production companies for their ground-breaking solutions. In addition to partners from the industry, the MX Award is supported by the Logistics department at the Technical University of Berlin and the Chair of Production Engineering at RWTH Aachen. The participating companies receive valuable suggestions for the further development of their own processes and methods in the form of structured and thorough feedback from these experts. The judging for the MX Award competition takes place in two stages. First, the companies’ submissions are evaluated and the best companies in the Quality Management, Management Culture and Employee Integration, Information Technology, Logistics and Network Management, Process Innovation, Product Innovation, Customer Focus, Best SME and Overall Winner categories are nominated. An in-depth on-site analysis is then carried out by independent industry experts.

Learn more about the MX Award here: http://manufacturing-excellence.de/

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