Bekaert’s breakthroughs in winning the EFQM prize

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Bekaert’s CEO won the first European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Award for leadership in 1990 and won the first award for a company in 1992. TQM has been a driving force at Bekaert since 1983, and a key to competitive breakthroughs. The paper will describe the Total Quality process at Bekaert. The presentation will be practical, talk about breakthroughs in the wire industry, and discuss lessons learned.

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Bekaert’s CEO won the first European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Award for leadership in 1990 and won the first award for a company in 1992. TQM has been a driving force at Bekaert since 1983, and a key to competitive breakthroughs. The paper will describe the Total Quality process at Bekaert. The presentation will be practical, talk about breakthroughs in the wire industry, and discuss lessons learned.

Additional information

Author(s)

John Vinyard, Bekaert Associates, Inc., USA.

Publication/Event/Pages

Paper presented at WAI 64th Annual Convention, Detroit, MI USA. Paper published in Wire Journal Internatinal, Feb. 1995, pg. 250.

Year

1994