Deming Prize


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 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
; 1958
;1961
  • Denso Japan
;1965
; 1976
  • Pentel "".
;1979
; 1981
  • JUKI Corporation
; 1989
; 1991
; 1994
  • AT&T, Power Systems '
; 1998
  • Sundaram Clayton brakes division
; 2002
; 2003
; 2004
  • Indo Gulf Fertilisers Ltd.
  • Lucas TVS Ltd.
  • SRF limited
; 2005
  • Rane Engine Valve Ltd
  • Rane TRW Steering Systems Ltd.
  • Krishna Maruti Ltd., Seat Division
; 2006
  • Sanden International Pte Ltd, the first Singapore-based/branch company to win.
; 2007
  • Rane Ltd.
  • AIS Auto Glass
; 2008
; 2010
;2011
;2012
;2013
  • RSB Transmissions Limited, Auto Division
;2014
  • GC America
  • Yaskawa
  • Mahindra Powerol
;2016
  • Ashok Leyland, Pantnagar plant - World's first commercial vehicle to get the Deming Prize
;2017
  • Ashok Leyland Limited, Hosur Unit II, India
  • CEAT Limited, India
;2018
  • PT
  • , India
;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