JAMSHEDPUR, Oct 9: Tata Steel, the leading steel manufacturer, has become the first integrated steel company in the world to have won the Deming Grand Prize (DGP).
The award is given by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) to companies for demonstrating excellent practice of total quality management (TQM) in the areas of production, customer service, safety, human resource, corporate social responsibility and environment etc, official sources today said.
Worldwide, 22 companies have won the DGP since the time it was instituted in 1969, of which three are Indian companies. Tata Steel has created history of sorts by becoming the first integrated steel company in the world to be awarded the coveted DGP.
Tata Steel Spokesperson Prabhat Sharma told the award was notified today by the Deming Prize Committee instituted by the JUSE, the apex body spearheading the quality movement.
The formal award ceremony will take place on November 14 in Tokyo.
Mr H M Nerurkar, Managing Director, Tata Steel, the 7 th largest steel producer in the world, while expressing satisfaction over this accomplishment thanked his employees for the achievement and said, ‘I am confident that the TQM journey will help us in sustaining the positive energy in the entire organisation enabling the achievement of customer-focused business goals.’
Tata Steel, one of the largest companies of the Tata Group, was founded by J N Tata in 1907 in pursuit of his dream of an independent and prosperous India, had also won the Deming Applications award earlier.
(UNI)
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