This year's PACE Awards featured 30 strong finalists and 12 winners, but only one company that celebrated a double victory: Yazaki! “Automotive News” presented the coveted prizes on September 19 in Detroit, USA. The award-winning Yazaki innovations were the “Narrow-focus lens technology for high-bandwidth data optical transmission” and the “Flexible wire with improved routing in the vehicle”.
“Agile Problem Solving Strategy – Best Supplier Kaizen Selections” − that was the motto of a competiton by Tofaş, a large Turkish Fiat models manufacturer belonging to Stellantis. In the TIE (Total Industrial Engineering) Kaizen category, the colleagues from Bursa (YWT-T) came out first. They won the award for applying this methodology at BSUV assembly lines − in a very creative and beneficial way, while also focusing on standardization and Yokoten.
It was a special event in several respects that Yazaki Portugal (YSE) hosted on July 21: performance vehicle creator McLaren honored Yazaki with the prestigious “Supplier Excellence Award” for Delivery & Operations (see Weekly Update from June 30) in an official ceremony on site. Darren Goddard, Executive Director Programmes at McLaren, handed over the prize to our CEO Hans Lemmens.
