Past Award Winners

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Announcing the 2010 North American Process Excellence Awards

Following the final round of judging on the 18th January 2010 winners and honorary mentions were announced at the Process Excellence Awards ceremony.

Winners were selected for their achievements based on a judging criteria covering business results, direction setting and portfolio management, implementation, project execution, innovation and creating and environment for change. Megan James, Summit Director IQPC

"The IQPC awards program is judged by a hand selected panel of Lean Six Sigma experts and is designed to benchmark and recognise achievements across industries active in Process Excellence. Despite a year of cost cutting and recession, companies that excelled were those focusing on sustainable change, performance and service delivery during these difficult times. It was a delight to see so many new companies entering and making the final line up"

2010 Awards winners and honorary mentions are: 

BEST PROJECT CONTRIBUTING TO INNOVATION
Winner: TCS eServe Ltd
Honorary Mention: US Army Distributed Learning
BEST GREEN PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Winner: JEA
Honorary Mention: Staples
BEST PROCESS EXCELLENCE PROJECT IN MANUFACTURING
Small-to-Medium Sized Corporation 
Winner: Anderson Packaging
Large Corporations
Winner: United States Postal Service
Honorary Mention: Braskem
BEST PROCESS EXCELLENCE PROJECT IN SERVICE & TRANSACTION
Small-to-Medium Sized Corporation
Winner: MEDASSIST - A Firstsource Company
Large Corporations
Winner: Capgemini Business Services Ltd
Honorary Mention: Motorola
BEST PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PROJECT UNDER 90 DAYS
Winner: Sutherland Global Services
Honorary Mention: Firstsource Advantage LLC
BEST START UP PROGRAM
Winner: PolyOne Corporation
Honorary Mention: United States Postal Service
BEST IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Winner: DTE Energy
Honorary Mention: Xerox
DEPLOYMENT LEADER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Chandeep Singh, Firstsource Solutions
Honorary Mention: Sebastian Fleisman, Repsol YPF

2009 Awards Winners!

Position Company Project
BEST PROJECT CONTRIBUTING TO INNOVATION
Large Corporations Category
Winner: Delphi Human behaviour and Preferences Modelling by conjoint Analysis to Optimize a Transactional Business Process
Honorary Mention Fleet Readiness Center South West Intermediate Level Support Equipment Maintenance Process
Small to Medium Sized Corporations Category
Winner: Shuuro Technologies Improvement in revenue from sales
BEST DESIGN FOR LEAN SIX SIGMA PROJECT
Honorary Mention Dominion- Generation- Fossil & Hydro Chesapeake Energy Center Waterborne Coal Unloading
Honorary Mention: Delphi Thermal Systems AXR Radiator Air Center Development
BEST PROCESS IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING PROJECT
Large Corporations Category
Winner: The East Ohio Gas Company Accuracy of Remote Reading Devices
Honorary Mention: Delphi Electronics Group Project - Product Failure due to the intrusion of a viscous fluid into a micro machines semi conductor
Small to Medium Sized Corporations Category
Winner: Dominion Kincaid Generation LLC Dominion Kincaid LLC Generation Unit Cooldown Project
BEST PROCESS IMPROVEMENT IN SERVICE & TRANSACTION PROJECT
Large Corporations Category
Winner: JEA Reduction of Peak Energy Use in Residential High Consumption Homes
Honorary Mention: Wal-Mart DC Apple Ipod Shrink by Monifa Cained (BB)
Small to Medium Sized Corporations Category
Winner: VFS Global Services Private Limited To reduce biometric override
UNDER 90 DAYS
Large Corporations Category
Winner: Mosaicco The Floaters Team
Honorary Mention: Sutherland Global Services Improvement of external quality score
Small to Medium Sized Corporations Category
Winner: Wellmark BlueCross BlueShield Physical Medicine Workflow RPI
BEST START UP PROGRAM
Winner: Ecolab Lean Six Sigma Deployment
Honorary Mention: EflexGroup.com Best Start Start Up
BEST IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Winner: Dominion Dominion - Six Sigma
Honorary Mention: Tacom LCMC Best Process Improvement Program
MASTER BLACK BELT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Allstate Liz Feirstein
DEPLOYMENT LEADER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Susan Huthmaker SimplexGrinnell

2008 Process Excellence Award Winners!

“BEST FAST TRACK PROJECT” SPONSORED BY ISIXSIGMA JOB SHOP
Winner: JEA (Reduce Call Overflow Volume)
Honorary Mention: Bayer Corporation (Capping Assay Turn Around Time Improvement Project)
Notable Mention: Dominion (Possum Point Unit 5 Company Use Power Reduction)
“BEST PROCESS IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING PROJECT” SPONSORED BY MINITAB
Winner: Delphi E&S/DEG (Process Optimization to Improve Product Robustness)
Honorary Mention: Bayer Healthcare (Media Filter Optimization)
Notable Mention: Delphi Packard Electrical/Electronic Architecture (Tape Optimization Utilization)
“BEST PROCESS IMPROVEMENT IN SERVICE AND TRANSACTION PROJECT” SPONSORED BY EXPERT CHOICE
Winner: Sutherland Global Services (Handle Time Reduction)
Honorary Mention: Royal Philips Electronics NV (Winning @ Retail: Shopper Engagement)
Notable Mention: Firstsource Solutions Ltd (Improve Conversion Rate for Real Time Marketing)
“BEST DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA PROJECT” SPONSORED BY SBTI
Winner: E&S/DEG (Laser Transmission Welding of Polymer Case & Cover)
Honorary Mention: Dominion (Chesapeake Energy Center Carbon Burnout)
Notable Mention: Delphi Automotive Holdings Group (Interior) (Vacuum Formable Low Gloss Coating for TPO Sheet)
“BEST PROJECT CONTRIBUTING TO INNOVATION” SPONSORED BY GEORGE GROUP
Winner: Delphi E&S/DEG (Compound Identification of Naturally Occurring Materials That Affect Solder Paste Performance)
Honorary Mention: Dominion (Chesapeake Energy Center Carbon Burnout)
Notable Mention: Dominion (Salem Harbor Station Mill Maintenance Optimization)
“BEST START UP PROGRAM” SPONSORED BY ISIXSIGMA MAGAZINE
Winner: ING (USFS Six Sigma)
Honorary Mention: Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) (AIRSpeed Program)
“BEST IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM”
Winner: Dominion (Improvement Program)
Honorary Mention: Providence Health & Services (Operational Excellence)
“MASTER BLACK BELT OF THE YEAR” SPONSORED BY SBTI
Winner: O'Connor, Michael (Unisys Corporation)
Honorary Mention: Hendricks, Mary Elizabeth (Beth) (Delphi Thermal Systems)
“DEPLOYMENT LEADER OF THE YEAR” SPONSORED BY AIR ACADEMY
Winner: Clark, Gianna (Dominion)
Honorary Mention: Singh, Chandeep (Firstsource Solutions Ltd)