Why Participate?
Highlights of IMEA 2025:
- Integrated Supply Chain Assessment: will focus on evaluation of upstream & downstream supply chain performance and inbound & outbound logistics.
- Digital Manufacturing Adoption: will be evaluated and benchmarked with other Indian companies.
- Smart Factory Awards will be conferred on companies that have matured at operational excellence and are at the forefront of adopting Industry 4.0. “Digital Readiness” assessment is an optional module that companies can opt for in addition to IMEA assessment.
Additional Value Creation
CORPORATE MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE RECOGNITION
Corporate Awards under Gold & Platinum category will be given to organizations that have multiple manufacturing sites with all showing a uniform and high level of maturity on the assessment model. To be eligible for the Corporate Recognition, please refer the eligibility criteria table below
CONSISTENCY/ SUSTENANCE RECOGNITION
Platinum – Consistency recognition will be entitled to those companies that has continuously applied Manufacturing Excellence Initiatives and has been sustaining the maturity steadily and effectively in a changing business environment.
DIGITAL FACTORY RECOGNITION
Digital Factory recognition will be entitled to companies adopting Industry 4.0 and incorporating digital transformation journey in their organization and will be benchmarked with other Indian industry, by applying in only Digital Readiness Assessment Framework.
Why Apply for IMEA?
- Measure & Monitor: your manufacturing excellence journey year-on-year
- Get an unbiased assessment of organization’s manufacturing capability and identify improvement opportunities
- Benchmark with peers & competitors
- Assess your digital manufacturing adoption maturity
- Get recognized at a national level for being a “Future Ready Factory”
- Learn & adopt industry best practices
- Increase credibility with customers, investors and other key stakeholders
- Enhance value for your PR and marketing efforts
- Boost employee morale, enhance investor relations, and delight shareholders
Eligibility Criteria
Corporate Manufacturing Excellence Recognition
| Manufacturing Sites |
Minimum sites to be nominated |
Eligibility: mentioned sites should be minimum in Gold category (820) or above |
Recognition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 5 | 3 | 2 out of 3 | Each site will get recognition for respective band Gold or Platinum 2nd fold recognition will be for |
| 6 to 20 | 5 | 3 out of 5 | |
| 21 and above | 7 | 5 out of 7 |
Note: Early bird Corporate Discount of 7% till Mar 31, 2025.
If there are 2 plants then both the plants need to be nominated for consideration of Corporate Manufacturing Excellence Recognition.
Consistency Awards
The following criteria shall be followed to felicitate consistency award winners.
Individual Achievement Awards
- As a Unit/ Operations/ Business Excellence Head, the nominee should have led the company / Site team to back-to-back Gold/ Platinum recognition on the IMEA platform for at least the last 2 participations.
- The nominee should have led his Unit to significant revenue growth for the last 2 financial years..
- The nominee should be an inspirational industry leader and thought champion with an impressive career background.
- The recipients of this recognition will not be eligible for repeat nomination in subsequent editions of IMEA.
- As a Unit/ Operations/ Business Excellence Head, the nominee should have led the company / Site team to Future Ready Factory – Platinum recognition on the IMEA platform at its very first year of participation.
- The nominee should have led his Unit to significant revenue growth for the last 2 financial years.
- The nominee should be an inspirational industry leader and thought champion with an impressive career background.
In our continuing effort to promote innovative sustainable practices, we are introducing a new award category aimed at recognizing organizations that demonstrate unique models/ practices under environmental protection, socio-economic development of the community, contribution towards circular economy, diversity and inclusiveness, and green supply chain, etc. This recognition will be independent of scores/ recognition band achieved by the organization during the onsite assessment.
In our continuing effort to promote excellence in manufacturing operations through innovation, we are introducing a new award category that is aimed at recognizing companies that demonstrate unique and cross industry replicable practices that significantly impact and delight their customers, investors, suppliers, and employees. This recognition will be independent of scores/ recognition band achieved by the company during the onsite assessment.