The Global Six Sigma Awards, organized by WCBF, recently announced that Tim Solso, chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc., has been named 2007 Six Sigma CEO of the Year.

Solso will be presented with the award at The Global Six Sigma Awards & Summit Gala Dinner on October 24 in Las Vegas, where he will address the audience on the business transformation Cummins achieved through Six Sigma.

“Six Sigma is one of the best things we have ever done.  Last year we saved $340 million and completed 2,200 projects,” Solso reported at Cummins’ annual meeting in May.  “Since the inception of the program in September 1999, we’ve saved or avoided spending a total of $1.4 billion, completed 7,500 projects, and trained 6,000 belts with almost a million hours of training.”

2006 was the best year in Cummins’ history, with record revenues of $11.4 billion, record profits, and record cash flow.

Solso, who has been with Cummins since 1971, set the goals in 1999 to reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, develop future leadership talent, support superior financial results, and drive a change in the company culture.

WCBF is on the Web at www.wcbf.com/quality.

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