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Shingo Prize Awarded to Jabil Healthcare Bray for Organizational Excellence

Jabil Healthcare Bray is to receive the world's highest standard for organizational and operational excellence - the Shingo Prize are (l-r): Jabil Healthcare Bray Operations Manager Alan Fogarty, Jabil Healthcare Europe Regional Lean Manager Roisin Mac Entee, Jabil Healthcare Europe Senior Director of Operations Padhraic McGinn, Jabil Bray Senior HR Business Partner Aoife Doyle, Jabil Bray Senior HR Manager Ruth Lloyd and Jabil Healthcare Bray General Manager Kevin Heffernan.

The Shingo Institute, a program in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, has awarded Jabil Healthcare Bray the Shingo Prize.

“Receipt of the Shingo Prize is a worldwide recognized symbol of an organization’s successful establishment of a culture anchored on enterprise excellence principles such as respect for every individual, leading with humility, quality at the source, the quest for perfection and creating value for the customer,” said Ken Snyder, executive director at the Shingo Institute. “Ultimately, these recipients are in a class of the best organizations in the world, regardless of industry or country.”

Jabil Inc. (NYSE:JBL) is among the most technologically advanced and trusted manufacturing solutions providers in the world. Jabil serves global leaders and their brands across many industries, including healthcare, automotive and transport, defense and aerospace, retail, computing and storage, networking and telecom.

Established in 1980, Jabil Healthcare Bray’s annual production exceeds 1.7 billion products and components for the respiratory, ophthalmic diagnostics and renal health markets, as well as reagent diagnostics, for which Bray received designation as a Centre of Excellence. With expertise in the areas of molding, tooling, engineering, quality assurance and automation, Jabil Healthcare Bray also serves some of the largest packaging customers in the world.

By “challenging” or applying for Shingo recognition, organizations invite a group of accomplished professionals and trained examiners to thoroughly review their culture and operations. The examiners evaluate the challengers based on a rigorous set of standards and the Shingo Institute awards the organizations according to their assessment results.

“Embedding the Shingo Model and challenging for the Shingo Prize has been great for Jabil Healthcare Bray,” said Kevin Heffernan, general manager at Jabil Healthcare Bray. “It has helped us align around common purpose, systems and tools to achieve our goals, engage our employees, delight our customers and create a better place to work. It has been demanding, but a lot of fun and we are so proud of what we have achieved together. It is a great distinction for our site.”

Team members from Jabil Healthcare Bray will receive the Shingo Prize during the Awards Gala at the 34th Annual Shingo Conference held on May 19–20, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. The conference will be a two-day hybrid conference featuring keynotes and interactive breakout sessions. Attendees will also have the option to add pre-conference workshops to their agenda. The annual conference is designed to provide ongoing knowledge, insights and experience for organizations in their pursuit of organizational excellence.

About the Shingo Institute

The Shingo Institute is home of the Shingo Prize, an award that recognizes organizations that demonstrate an exceptional culture that fosters continuous improvement. A program in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, the Shingo Institute is named after Japanese industrial engineer and Toyota adviser, Shigeo Shingo. Shingo distinguished himself as one of the world’s thought leaders in concepts, management systems and improvement techniques that have become known as the Toyota Production System.

Drawing from Shingo’s teachings and years of experience working with organizations worldwide, the Shingo Institute developed the Shingo Model, which is the basis for its several educational offerings, including workshops, webinars, podcasts, study tours and conferences. Workshops are available in multiple languages through the Institute’s licensed affiliates. For more information on workshops and affiliates, or to register to attend the Annual Shingo Conference, please visit www.shingo.org.


CONTACT

Mary Price
Events and Marketing Manager
Shingo Institute
435.760.0711
mary.price@usu.edu


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