The Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP) Program was created in 1985 to help businesses identify, research, and promote exceptional manufacturing practices, methods, and procedures. Its objective is to empower defense and commercial customers to operate at a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness. To this end, BMP has three core competencies represented by tools and resources that enable organizations to identify and apply best practices and become part of a vast, mutually supportive information exchange network:

• Best Practices Surveys - conducted to identify, validate, and document best practices, and encourage government, industry, and academia to share information and implement the practices



• Systems Engineering - facilitated by the Program Manager's WorkStation (PMWS), a suite of electronic tools that provide risk management, engineering support, and failure analysis through integrated problem solving



• Web Technologies - offered through the Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) to provide users with an integrated digital environment to access and process a common set of documents in a geographically dispersed environment