QUALITY AWARDS

ISO 9000 is not a quality award, but a quality certification

QUALITY AWARDS

• Limited in number
• an organization receiving any of these national awards will indicate that it is practicing TQM and has achieved substantial success in the implementation of the same
• given in an objective oriented manner

Some Popular Quality Awards

• Deming Prize in Japan
• Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) in the USA
• European Quality Award (EQA)
• Raajiv Gandhi National Quality Award in India

DEMING PRIZE

DEMING PRIZE

• established in 1951 by the Union of Japan Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) in commemoration of the late Dr. William Edwards Deming who contributed greatly to Japan’s proliferation of statistical quality control after the World War II

DEMING PRIZE

• aim: motivate companies to embrace Company Wide Quality Control (CWQC)
• one of the oldest Quality Awards internationally
• also given to industries outside Japan

MALCOLM BALDRIGE

MALCOLM BALDRIGE