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Tata Steel Awarded Coveted Deming Application Prize
10/08/2008 - Tata Steel India becomes the first integrated steel company outside Japan to be awarded the Deming Application Prize for excellence in Total Quality Management.
Tata Steel India has become the first integrated steel company outside Japan to be awarded the Deming Application Prize for excellence in Total Quality Management. The company won the award for the year 2008.
“No other activity made us think so deeply about our business and relationships than the process of applying for the Deming Prize,” said B. Muthuraman, Tata Steel’s Managing Director, as he expressed satisfaction at the accomplishment. “TQM is a fundamental way of managing business and every organization can gain from institutionalizing the culture necessary to win this prize.”
The award was announced by the Deming Prize Committee, which was originally instituted by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE), the apex body spearheading the quality movement. The committee announced the award on October 7, 2008, and the formal award ceremony will take place on November 12, 2008 in Tokyo.
Muthuraman dedicated the award to Tata Steel’s employees, customers and business partners, who have “consistently embraced the culture of Continuous Improvement and demonstrated great teamwork.” Their support, according to Muthuraman has resulted in Tata Steel receiving several awards since the company embarked on the TQM journey in 1988.
Established in 1907 as Asia's first integrated private sector steel company, Tata Steel Group (including Corus) is the world’s sixth largest steel producer with a crude steel capacity of over 28 million tonnes. It is now the world’s second most geographically diversified steel producer, with operations in 24 countries and commercial presence in over 50 countries. The Tata Steel Group with a turnover of USD 33 billion in 2007-2008 has over 82,700 employees across four continents.
Established in December 1950 in honor of W. Edwards Deming, the Deming Application Prize was originally designed to reward Japanese companies for major advances in quality improvement. It has grown, under the guidance of Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) and is now also available to non-Japanese companies. Prizes are awarded to an individual or company and other operating organizations and factories located outside Japan. The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) are the administrators of the process and the examiners are typically university professors with areas of expertise in quality management. Worldwide, 160 companies have won the Deming Application Prize since the time it was instituted. Of these 160, 15 companies are Indian, primarily from the automotive sector.
