City-based Sundram Fasteners Ltd part of the $7.2 billion TVS Group, has bagged the Deming Prize for all its 17 plants across the country.
The Deming Prize is presented by the Union of Japanese scientists and engineers annually to companies that have achieved breakthrough results by the application of TQM (Total Quality Management) at the manufacturing units.
The total quality management drive in Sundram Fasteners Ltd is an initiative by its Managing Director, Arathi Krishna.
“It is especially gratifying that SFL has managed to simultaneously win the Deming Prize for all its 17 different plants which cover a range of technologies”, she said.
“Winning this award is a confirmation of the practice that we have been implementing at all our plants”, she said.
Sundram Fasteners Ltd had bagged TPM Excellence award in 1998, becoming the first in the engineering industry to achieve this feat, the release added.