The Deming Prize is the longest-running national quality award and one of the highest awards in the world. It recognizes both individuals for their contributions to the field of quality and businesses that have successfully implemented exemplary systems that promote quality of goods and services. It was established in 1951 to honor W. Edwards Deming who contributed greatly to Japan’s proliferation of statistical quality control after World War II. His teachings helped Japan build its foundation by which the level of Japan’s product quality has been recognized as the highest in the world, was originally designed to reward Japanese companies for major advances in quality improvement. Over the years it has grown, under the guidance of the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) to where it is now also available to non-Japanese companies, albeit usually operating in Japan, and also to individuals recognized as having made major contributions to the advancement of quality. The awards ceremony is broadcast every year in Japan on national television.
Two categories of awards are made annually, the Deming Prize for Individuals and the Deming Prize, with a third, the Deming Distinguished Practice Award to be awarded for the first time in October 2024.
Winners of individual award
1951: Motosaburo Masuyama 1952: Tetsuichi Asaka, Kaoru Ishikawa, Masao Kogure, Masao Goto, Hidehiko Higashi, Shin Miura, Shigeru Mizuno, Eizo Watanabe 1953: Toshio Kitagawa 1954: Eizaburo Nishibori 1988: Renichi Takenaka 1989: Hitoshi Kume 1990: Shoichiro Kobayashi 1991: Kenji Kurogane 1992: Masao Nemoto 1993: Yasutoshi Washio 1994: Takanori Yoneyama 1995: Ayatomo Kanno 1996: Kenzo Sasaoka 1997: Noriaki Kano 1998: Katsuya Hosotani 1999: Yotaro Kobayashi 2000: Matabee Maeda 2001: Shiro Fujita 2002: Shoji Shiba 2003: Tadashi Yoshizawa 2004: Akira Takahashi 2005: Hajime Sasaki 2006: Yoshinori Iizuka 2007: Masayoshi Ushikubo 2008: Masahiro Sakane 2009: Hiroshi Osada 2010: Takao Enkawa 2011: Masamitsu Sakurai 2012: Makoto Nakao 2013: Hideo Iwasaki 2014: Kazuyuki Suzuki 2015: Tadaaki Jagawa 2016: Naotake Okubo 2017: Takeshi Nakajo 2018: Kunihiko Onuma 2019: Yasushi Nagata 2020: Shinichi Sasaki 2021: Hiroe Tsubaki
Winners of application prize 1951 Fuji Iron & Steel, (now part of Nippon Steel) Showa Denko Tanabe Seiyaku Yawata Iron & Steel, (now part of Nippon Steel) 1958 Kaneka Corporation 1961 Denso Japan 1965 Toyota 1976 Pentel "(a first for the stationery industry)". 1979 Takenaka Corporation "(a first for non-manufacturer industry)". 1981 JUKI Corporation (Tokyo Juki Industrial Co., Ltd., Industrial Sewing Machine Division) 1989 Florida Power & Light (first non-Japanese winner of award) 1991 Nachi-Fujikoshi
1994 AT&T, Power Systems (first American manufacturer to win award) 1998 Sundaram Clayton brakes division
2002 TVS Motor Company (TVSMC) Hi-Tech Carbon GMPD
2003 Brakes India Ltd., Foundry Division [India] Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (the world's first tractor company to win)Hindu Business Line Rane Brake Lining Ltd. Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd.
2004 Indo Gulf Fertilisers Ltd. Lucas TVS Ltd. SRF limited
2005 Rane Engine Valve Ltd Rane TRW Steering Systems Ltd.(SGD) Krishna Maruti Ltd., Seat Division
2006 Sanden International (Singapore) Pte Ltd (SIS), the first Singapore-based/branch company to win. 2007 Rane (Madras) Ltd. AIS Auto Glass
2008 Tata Steel, the first integrated steel plant in Asia to win Deming award 2010 National Engineering Industries Ltd, (India)
2011 Sanden Vikas (India) Limited, (India)
2012 SRF Limited, Chemicals Business (India) Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Farm Equipment Sector, Swaraj Division (India)
2013 RSB Transmissions(I) Limited, Auto Division (Jamshedpur(Unit 1), Pune & Pant Nagar Plant) (India) 2014 GC America (USA) Yaskawa Mahindra Powerol
2016 Ashok Leyland, Pantnagar plant - World's first commercial vehicle to get the Deming Prize (Outside Japan) 2017 Ashok Leyland Limited, Hosur Unit II, India CEAT Limited, India [first tire company in the world (Outside Japan) to get Deming award]
2018 PT Komatsu Indonesia [First Company in Indonesia, to get the Deming Prize; Mr. Pratjojo Dewo, President Director] Sundram Fasteners Limited, India [SFL got the Deming Prize for all its 17 plants located across India; Arathi Krishna, Managing Director, is the first woman to receive this award] Jsw Steel Ltd, India [President, Mr. Rajashekhar Pattanasetty] Indus Towers, India [CEO: Bimal Dayal]
2019 ELGi Equipments Ltd, Coimbatore, was the first industrial air compressor manufacturer outside of Japan to win this award.
The Deming Distinguished Service Award for Dissemination and Promotion (Overseas) 2009: Gregory H. Watson 2012: Janak Mehta 2014: Kan Trakulhoon 2019: Venu Srinivasan 2022: L Ganesh
See also European Quality Award List of national quality awards Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Total Quality Management
References
External links
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) Toyota.com on winning the Deming Prize in 1965 List of winners of the Deming Application Prize on JUSE web site Deming Medal (given to individuals by ASQ)