“Considered the Nobel Prize of manufacturing, the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing …awards…sites that have achieved dramatic performance improvements…”
- Business Week Magazine
The Shingo Prize
The Shingo Prize is regarded as the premier manufacturing award recognition program for North America. As part of the Shingo Prize mission and model, the Prize highlights the value of using Lean Manufacturing practices to attain world-class status.
“The Shingo Prize Model has been proven to be the best available model to assess an organization’s Lean transformation – from the full enterprise perspective. Challenging for the Shingo Prize is a tremendous ‘energizer’ for acceleration in organizational improvement.”
- George Koenigsaecker, Past Chair, Shingo Prize Board of Governors
The Prize is named for Japanese industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo who distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading experts in improving manufacturing processes. Dr. Shingo has been described as an “engineering genius” who helped create and write about many aspects of the revolutionary manufacturing practices that comprise the renowned Toyota Production System.
The following Connecticut companies are recipients of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing:
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2002 (received award while Ensign Bickford) |
1999 Wiremold Company West Hartford |
1994 (received award while Johnson & Johnson) |
Advisory Board
The Shingo Prize in Connecticut is governed by an advisory board consisting of leading representatives of businesses, professional organizations and academic institutions. The Board guides the Prize governance and promotes the Prize merits. Members are chosen based on their expertise and willingness to endorse and promote the principles and mission of the The Shingo Prize.
Donald Cornwall
Vice President, Operations
Smiths-Medical, Southington (formerly Johnson & Johnson)
1994 Shingo Business Prize Recipient with Johnson & Johnson
Rich Higley
Team Leader/Plant Engineering
Dyno Nobel, Simsbury (formerly Ensign Bickford)
2002 Shingo Business Prize Recipient with Ensign Bickford
Edward Miller
President
Strategy Development Services, LLC, Avon
1999 Shingo Business Prize Recipient with The Wiremold Company
Brian Montanari
Chief Operating Officer
Habco, Inc., Glastonbury
2006 Connecticut Silver Shingo Prize Recipient with HID Global
Tim Suydam
Site Manager
Dyno Nobel, Simsbury (formerly Ensign Bickford)
2002 Shingo Business Prize Recipient with Ensign Bickford