This year’s winners of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing are:

• Autoliv Querétaro CMX Facility, Querétaro, Mexico
• Baxter Healthcare Corp., North Cove Plant; Marion, North Carolina
• Baxter S.A. de C.V., Cuernavaca Plant; Morelos, Mexico
• Cordis de Mexico; Juarez, Mexico
• Delphi Packard Electrical/Electronic Architecture’s Chihuahua 1; Chihuahua, Mexico
• Delphi Packard Electrical/Electronic Architecture’s Cableados Fresnillo 1; Fresnillo, Mexico
• DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee Inc., Instrument Cluster Division; Maryville, Tennessee
• Home & Hearth Technologies; Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
• HON Company, LA South Gate Plant; South Gate, California
• Raytheon Missile Systems; Louisville, Kentucky
• Solectron Manufactura de Mexico; Guadalajara, Mexico
• Takata Seat Weight Sensor, Equipo Automotriz Americana; Monterrey, Mexico

Finalists were ZF Lemforder Corp., Tuscaloosa Plant, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Boeing Co., Support Systems, San Antonio, Texas; and BAE Systems, Ground Systems Division, York, Pennsylvania.

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