Shainin is pleased to honor outstanding individuals and companies for their achievements and accomplishments with Red X^® Technologies. This year in total 9 distinct Dorian Shainin Awards were bestowed.

Over 300 submissions were received for the categories of Individual and Company awards.  The final selection was extremely difficult due to the outstanding quality of so many nominations.  In some cases, there was less than .1% difference in the final scores.  We are proud to announce today the final results and ultimate winners of the 2019 Dorian Awards.

The final winners were chosen from a distinguished list of formal nomination recipients. Each of these nominations indicates that they were among the best of the best which were received and reviewed by the selection jury. The following is a list of the formal nominations for this year’s Dorian Awards.

Benchmark Apprentice Project

• Deepanjan Mukherjee, Bosch Ltd., Powertrain Solutions, Nashik Plant, India

• Geert Veenstra, Philips, Personal Health, Drachten

• Nathan Solomon, BorgWarner, ETS-Americas, Fletcher Manufacturing Facility, Fletcher NC

• Raúl Alberto Cabañas Contreras, Airbus Commercial Aircraft, Illescas Plant, Spain

• Rebecca Reid, Pratt and Whitney Dallas Airfoil Repair Operations – DARO, Great Pairie, TX

• Kenn Zhou, ZF, China

Benchmark Journeyman Project

• Benjamin Sheen, Eaton, Vehicle Group, Galesburg

• Christine Danjoy, Airbus SAS, Toulouse

• Edgar Bignion, Liebherr Machines Bulle, QM, Bulle

• David Lin, Delphi Technologies Yantai China

Benchmark Master Project

• John Beluska, Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, Florence, KY

• Lorenzo Benini, Dana, Off Highway, Arco

• Bryan Arnold, FCA Chrysler Technical Center, Auburn Hills, MI

• Dan Bamber, BorgWarner, Transmission Systems, PTC Auburn Hills

• Ramesh Raichur, Bosch LTD, RBIN Bangalore

Master of the Year

• Alfonso Melchor-Perez, Airbus Commercial Aircraft

• Cliff Owens, BorgWarner

• Luis Ramon Lopez Sandoval, Bosch

• Robert Kinnear, ZF

• Valeria Tarango, Delphi Technologies

• Aldo Andres Alarcon Gonzalez, Bosch

Bottom Line Improvement

• Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, Florence, KY

• Vitesco Technologies (Continental Automotive) Powertrain plant Limbach-Oberfrohna

• Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Engineering Body Group

Red X^® Project Sponsorship Management

• Airbus Commercial Aircraft Illescas plant

• Bosch India Ltd

• Bourns, Inc.

Y to X^® Problem Solving Cultural Excellence

• FCA Chrysler Technical Center

• Delphi Technologies

• Robert Bosch LLC Anderson Plant

• United Automotive Electronic Systems Co., Ltd.

• Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, Florence KY

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!