While our field has done commendable work putting forward new ideas in operations strategy, we have historically done a less effective job validating concepts after their introduction. Given this issue, we attempted to test and extend one of the most influential OM configuration - Miller and Roth's [Management Sciene 40(1994) 285] taxonomy of manufacturing strategies. Their taxonomy was longitudinally replicated with a newer set of North America Manufacturing Futures data as well as an entirely different global sample. Our replications partially supported Miller and Roth's toxonomy of three strategy-types (Caretakes, Marketeers and Innovators), but found no evidence of the two underlying dimensions of manufacturing strategy that they call market scope and differentiation. Interestingly, the Marketeers were replaced in the 1990s by a new strategy called Designers, and three other unique manufacturing strategis were identified in the global data.