Hindalco, Reliance Industries, Vardhman Spinning and Sterlite win Qimpro''s Qualtech 2007 awards

Qimpro consultants, the leading Indian quality management consulting firm that has pioneered quality improvement training in India, hosted the annual QualTech Prize instituted by its Qimpro College.

The event recognises cross-functional teams that have achieved extraordinary results in "improvement" and "innovation" projects, with results that have made their respective organisations very proud.

The QualTech Prize competition is open to a variety of methodologies, with an accent on achieving extraordinary results, both tangible and intangible in manufacturing, service, education, health care, and IT & ITeS categories.

The competition looks at quality improvement through the implementation of any of the structured methodologies like Six Sigma, Juran on Quality Improvement, Statistical Problem Solving, Kobetsu Kaizen, etc.

For innovation, the competition looks at achievements from the use of methodologies such as Design for Six Sigma, Quality Function Deployment, TRIZ, deBono Thinking, and Design of Experiments.

The prize covered categories in the areas of improvement and innovation, in both manufacturing and service.