In October 2005, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a national award for manufacturing excellence as part of Singapore’s efforts to develop the manufacturing sector.

MAXA was incepted in 2006 with its first awards for the manufacturing industry. Since then, MAXA has awarded 11 winners for different award categories. In addition, 31 participating companies have also benefitted from the consultancy-style deep dives during the MAXA journey.

It has since evolved from an award of excellence in Singapore’s manufacturing sector into a process of recognising excellence and sharing industry best practices with the local manufacturing community.

Milestones

30 October 2009
The Growth Award was introduced to honour high growth local manufacturing companies that continually demonstrate manufacturing excellence and innovation, and possess qualities for sustainability.

MAXA and SQC applications were integrated to draw upon the synergies between manufacturing excellence and business excellence

MAXA Excellence Community (MEC) launched as a knowledge-sharing platform for participants to learn from past MAXA winners.

20 Jul 2009
Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation (SMa) became the fourth partner in MAXA. The award’s application and assessment processes were integrated with SPRING’s Singapore Quality Class (SQC).

7 Nov 2008
Keppel FELS Limited awarded overall winner for MAXA Award.

12 Nov 2007
Tetra Pak awarded overall winner for MAXA Award.

30 Oct 2006
Inaugural MAXA names Seagate as the winner of its first Overall Excellence Award.

25 Apr 2006
Inception of The Manufacturing Excellence Award (MAXA) as a partnership between the Economic Development Board (EDB), McKinsey & Company and Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA).