Seagate Technology, a leading disc drive company, has earned sixsigmaIQ’s annual Six Sigma Excellence Award for the best design for Six Sigma project.

Seagate received the award for its project, "Deployment of Design for Six Sigma in Seagate’s U Series Disc Drive." Other finalists for the award included projects from Ford Motor Co. and Raytheon. A panel of experts from Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, ABB, Honeywell and Lockheed Martin considered the entries.

The sixsigmaIQ award, which rewards best practices and exceptional innovation, was presented at the Annual Six Sigma summit in Miami last month. An independent division of the International Quality and Productivity Center, sixsigmaIQ launched the awards program to recognize real-world achievements that result from Six Sigma implementation all over the world.

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