2021 Manufacturing Leadership Award Winners

Manufacturers of the Year

Small/Medium Enterprise: Hologic

Large Enterprise: Dow Inc.

Manufacturing Leader of the Year

Given to the medical manufacturing industry and all front-line manufacturing workers in recognition of their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project Winners

(* – Denotes High Achiever, or highest scoring project in each category)

Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Leadership

• Cisco Systems – Cisco’s Data & Analytics Office Brings AI to Life All Across Cisco
• Cisco Systems – Component Quality Early Sensing Platform
• CNH Industrial
• HELLA
• IBM Corporation – Manufacturing Quality Inspection with AI and Edge Computing*
• MacLean-Fogg
• Merck & Co., Inc. – Automated Vision Inspection Platform
• NCDMM – Joint Additive Manufacturing Model Exchange – JAMMEX

Collaborative Innovation Leadership

• Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) – COVID-19 Response: Infrastructure for Good
• Flex – A Mask-Making Journey
• IBM Corporation – IBM Customer Solution Center NYC Department of Education Remote Learning Enablement
• Johnson & Johnson – Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain Wearables Smart Glasses
• Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals – COVID-19 Response Team
• Merck & Co., Inc. – DigInnovate Community
• Roche and Genentech – Rapid Technical Transfer*
• Roche and Genentech – Continuing Pharma Manufacturing When the World Stopped
• VIRTEX

Engineering and Production Technology Leadership

• Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) – Project Segue*
• Corteva Agriscience – Pyraxalt Active Product Manufacturing & Process Optimization
• Dana
• Ford Motor Company – In-Station Process Control for Gear Machining Processes
• Ford Motor Company – 2D Laser Profiling for High-Speed CNC Compensation
• General Motors*
• Johnson & Johnson – Ethicon Digital Surgery Molded Components
• Kenworth Truck Company – Tension Control Tooling Improvement
• Kenworth Truck Company – Sealed Beam Headlamp Aimer
• Lexmark International
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics – F35 Seal Frame Accelerated Cure Project
• NCDMM – Conformal Fan Duct Heat Exchangers for Engine Thermal Management Systems
• Peterbilt Motors Company – Paint Air Ladder Calibration Project
• PULS GmbH
• SAUDI ARAMCO

Enterprise Integration Technology Leadership

• Array Technologies
• Cisco Systems – Hardware Failure Prediction
• Dow Inc. – Dow Manufacturing 4.0*
• Flex – Utilizing Simulation in Manufacturing
• Ford Motor Company – Ford Teams with Drishti for Process Improvements in Manual Assembly
• IBM Corporation – Embracing Complexity, a Compass to Digital Transformation
• Merck & Co., Inc.- Remote Assist
• MxD – MxD Cyber Box
• Nexteer Automotive
• Rapid Turn Laser & Machine LLC
• Xenith

Industrial Internet of Things Leadership

• Dow Inc. – Accelerating Innovation in Instrumentation and Sensors at Dow Texas Operations
• Intertape Polymer Group – Operational Excellence Through Digital Transformation*
• Maxion Wheels
• MxD – MxD Cyber Platform

Operational Excellence Leadership

• ADAC Automotive
• Bridge Publications Inc.
• Church & Dwight
• Comez International s.r.l. – a Jakob Mueller company
• Corteva Agriscience – Spinetoram Active Insecticide
• Excel Connection
• Flex – Ventilator Production
• Geico Taikisha
• General Mills
• Iochpe-Maxion S.A.
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics – Aircraft Optical Network Diagnostic System*
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics – Wireless Harness Automated Measurement System
• Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals – Packaging Process Improvement
• NCDMM – Manufacturing Technology for Complex Missile Seekers (JAGM CMS)
• Peterbilt Motors Company – Engine Trim Error Proofing
• The Raymond Corporation

Supply Chain Leadership

• ALOM
• Central Garden & Pet
• Corning Incorporated*
• Dow Inc. – E2E Business Planning Program
• Hologic Inc. – Supply Chain: Impacting Lives, Every Day
• Johnson & Johnson – Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Transformation
• Roche and Genentech – Unlocking Manufacturing Network Capacity at Roche and Genentech

Sustainability Leadership

• Corteva Agriscience – Advanced Technology for Successful Rinskor Active Ingredient Product Manufacture
• FloraCraft
• Intertape Polymer Group – Incorporating Sustainability into Lean Manufacturing Production System
• Owens Corning*
• Peterbilt Motors Company – Paint Emissions Reduction
• Protolabs
• Pure & Gentle

Talent Management Leadership

• Essentra
• Hologic Inc. – Building a Talent Management System for a 4.0 Medical Device Company in Costa Rica*
• MxD – MxD’s Hiring Guide: Cybersecurity in Manufacturing

Individual Winners

Digital Transformation Leadership

• Maria Martinez, Cisco Systems
• Dave Evans, Fictiv
• Billy B. Bardin, Dow Inc.
• Veronica Gutierrez Magallanes, IBM Corporation
• Raja Shembekar, Denso
• Jayendran Sundararaman, Intertape Polymer Group
• Jeff Gleeson, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Next-Generation Leadership

• Kasia Karimee Garcia Bracho, IBM Corporation
• Katherine Duggan, Dow Inc.
• Jonathan Jones, Corteva Agriscience
• Katia Valenzuela, MxD

Partner Winners

• Ceridian
• Dassault Systèmes
• Drishti
• ECI Software Solutions
• EPSoft Technologies
• Ernst & Young LLC
• iBASEt
• KBMax
• Leading2Lean
• Logility
• Markforged
• Paperless Parts
• Predictronics

Creators Respond Honor Roll

Given in recognition of projects that made a direct effort toward pandemic relief and recovery

• ALOM Technologies
• AB InBev
• Bridge Publications Inc.
• Dow Inc.
• Flextronics Manufacturing
• Flex
• IBM
• Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
• Merck & Co., Inc.
• Roche and Genentech
• Smithfield Foods