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Why SATEA

Participation in the SATEA process provides your team the opportunity:

TO LEARN: Improve your projects by using the criteria as well as by seeing how others have employed it.

TO SHARE: Showcase your project and gain recognition for your organization's continuous improvement and innovation process.

TO BENCHMARK: See how your project measures up against the criteria.

TO BE RECOGNIZED: Recognize employees and motivate staff to replicate quality and innovation practices throughout your organization.

TO BUILD LEADERS : Team work helps build leadership skills.

Award Process

It is a criteria-based award with 2 rounds.

First Round: In Preliminary Round Online Live Presentation - teams submit project presentation aligned with the Team Excellence Criteria showcasing creative, innovative solutions and significant cost savings resulting in enhanced customer satisfaction, product innovation and team performance. Projects must either be active (still seeing results at the time of submission) or have been completed within the last 2 years and include measurable results. Teams will be invited for virtual live presentation and will be judged by a panel of judges.

Second Round: Final Round Onsite Live Presentation At the daylong event qualified teams from the preliminary round will make live presentation to the judges for final award qualification. Finalists will showcase their project success stories, offering opportunities to the teams to learn, share and benchmark from within the industry and across industry. Three-member team per project entry are entitled to attend the Live Presentation.

The scoring and evaluation are consensus-based. After the final round jury panel will also provide detailed feedback to every participating team

Recognition Formats


Timeline
How to Apply

STEP 1 – Complete and submit entry form, team photo, organization logo and entry fee.

STEP 2 – Identify project(s) completed in the last two years that achieved measurable results and that you plan to submit. Projects must either be active (still seeing results at the time of submission) or have been completed within the last 2 years and include measurable results.

STEP 3 – Create a PowerPoint presentation that describes your completed project(s).

STEP 4 – Ensure that any presentation aligns with the Team Excellence Award Criteria.

STEP 5 – Complete the online entry form and submit Entry Materials and make the payment by August 10, 2024. No extension will be provided.

STEP 6 – Teams will be invited for virtual live presentation and will be judged by a panel of judges.

Live presentation by SATEA 2024 Finalists Event on 29 NOV, 2024 at New Delhi


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SATEA WINNERS 2023
Brief History

ASQ's South Asia Team Excellence Award (SATEA) is an annual award and recognition program that provides teams an opportunity to assess their performance against an excellence framework. The SATEA Criteria provide a framework to help teams and organizations measure and compare their team improvement and innovation efforts.

SATEA was established eight years back in line with ASQ International Team Excellence Award (ITEA) held in the US for the past 30 years. In the past cycles, held at New Delhi, the SATEA saw some of the best companies from South Asia, participate in this prestigious award process.

The SATEA Purpose

The purpose of the SATEA framework is to help organizations benchmark and improve the results of their projects regardless of organizational size, industry type, or project type. The Criteria provides a universal framework for both improvement projects or innovation initiatives using any kind of quality or innovation tools and methodologies to achieve organisation goals.

The opportunity to be recognized at a gold, silver or bronze level is a participation bonus for organizations who choose to seek the prestigious team recognition. The SATEA final round, where the awards are presented, allows professionals the opportunity to learn how high-performance teams use various tools, techniques and innovative methodologies to find solutions to industry problems or provide customer delight.

2016 eClerx Services

Project: SPMD Automation

This project focused on improving product catalogue coverage from 60% to 80% for a major computer technology company's online parts and upgrade operations. The team applied Lean Six Sigma methodology and used Brainstorming, Fishbone, Process Door Analysis, Hypothesis testing, and Control Charts. Upon project completion, the team processed 300% additional volumes, saved AHT by 50% and improved process quality by 70%. Subsequently, the catalogue coverage was increased by 21%, offering the client additional revenue of $18.2 million.

2017 Ashok Leyland

Project: Reliability Improvement of Reaming Machines

This project contributed to Ashok Leyland's strategic objective of market share growth by increasing productivity through Breakdown time reduction at vehicle assembly line. Advanced statistical tools such as DOE, Regression, Capability studies along with Gemba observations helped us to identify and validate the root causes. A structured Problem Solving approach was used to solve a business critical problem which helped in producing an additional 3802 vehicles thus improving the company's revenue by INR 5703 Million. This also helped the 'machine manufacturer' to improve the reliability of their product by 81% which emphasizes our company's ideology of “Aapki Jeet Hamari Jeet”.

2018 TATA Steel

Project: Coke Moisture Reduction

Tata Steel produces steel using Blast Furnace-LD [BF-LD] route. In BFs, the raw material is converted into liquid hot metal using coal and coke as fuel. Coke is a hardened version of coal with reduced moisture, is produced in-house through carbonization process which costs ~40% of steelmaking process. A model was developed to reduce moisture content in coke by 10%. The model is well-validated with plant and leading to reduction in water consumption by 3.38 Mgd and CO2 emission by 0.6%.

2019 eClerx Services

Project: Coke Moisture Reduction

Tata Steel produces steel using Blast Furnace-LD [BF-LD] route. In BFs, the raw material is converted into liquid hot metal using coal and coke as fuel. Coke is a hardened version of coal with reduced moisture, is produced in-house through carbonization process which costs ~40% of steelmaking process. A model was developed to reduce moisture content in coke by 10%. The model is well-validated with plant and leading to reduction in water consumption by 3.38 Mgd and CO2 emission by 0.6%.

Past Participating Companies
Request a Copy of the 2023 ASQ South Asia Team Excellence Award Criteria

REQUEST A COPY OF THE 2023 ASQ SOUTH ASIA TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD CRITERIA Thank you for your interest in ASQ SA’s Team Excellence Award Criteria. Please complete the following form to receive a copy of the Criteria to be used in preparing your presentation for the South Asia Team Excellence Award competition. Note: All information in the South Asia Team Excellence Criteria is copyrighted by ASQ South Asia. For uses other than reproduction for the purpose of submitting an entry for ASQ’s South Asia Team Excellence Award Process, and single-copy individual use, ASQ South Asia requires you to request permission and/or pay a licensing fee for use or reprinting of the copyrighted material.

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Participation Fees

Participation Fee INR 30,000/- + 18% GST (per entry)

Note:
  • Group discount – 2 or more entries – 10%
  • Maximum five entries per company per site.
  • 2 persons and 1 senior official per project entry are entitled to attend Live presentation.
  • To attend the Live presentation –
  • Fees for other member(s) of participating company: INR 2,000 per person.
  • Fees for attendees from other organizations: INR 5,000 per person.

Organisation, Team and Project Information Complete all the fields in the Team Entry Form. Fields with an asterisk* are mandatory. Information you provide on this form will be used for preparing your team finalist award and/or used in promotional materials. We reserve the right to edit your project description.

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