Awards

Land Transport Excellence Awards 2008
- Most Innovative Partner (Technology) for i-Transport System

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) was awarded the inaugural Land Transport Excellence Awards 2008 in the 'Most Innovative Partner (Technology)' category. This award was presented by Land Transport Authority (LTA) in recognition of STEE-InfoComm's effort in developing i-Transport, which contributed towards Singapore's endeavour in achieving a world-class transportation system.

Singapore Quality Award (SQA) with Special Commendation 2007

ST Electronics as a member of the Singapore Technologies Engineering Group, became the first public-listed company in Singapore to attain the Singapore Quality Award (SQA) in 2002. ST Engineering won the SQA on its first attempt as a Group and is one of only two companies in Singapore to attain the prestigious Singapore Quality Award (SQA) with Special Commendation in 2007. The SQA is the pinnacle award conferred to organisations in Singapore in recognition of their attainment of world-class standards in business excellence. The SQA is recognised as one of the premier business excellence awards in the world, on par with the US Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the European Quality Award and the Australian Business Excellence Award.

Minister for Defence Award 2007

ST Electronics was awarded the highest accolade of the 2007 Total Defence Awards - The Minister for Defence Award. The award was conferred in recognition of ST Electronics outstanding and consistent support and unwavering commitment towwards the nation's defence.

Top Ten Financial and Intellectual Chinese Personality for Year 2007

Mr Seah Moon Ming, President of ST Electronics was awarded the "Top Ten Financial and Intellectual Chinese Personality for Year 2007". Organised by several academic institutions and media in China, this prestigious award recognises distinguished Chinese nationals and overseas Chinese who have made exceptional contributions in their respective international economic, social and business arenas.

Innovation Award at Boat Asia 2007

Harbour Craft Identification & Monitoring System (HMS) from ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) won the Boat Asia Innovation Award 2007. Organised in conjunction with Boat Asia 2007 exhibition held at Sentosa Cove on 19 April 2007, this award recognises technical innovation that benefits the boating industry. HMS was selected for its innovative use of Global Positioning System (GPS) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technologies to provide a cost effective and efficient solution that identifies, monitors and tracks vessels and harbour craft around coastal waters. This system was also credited for its export potential in other jurisdictions especially since homeland security has become a priority and focus of many countries.

CRP 2007 (Congres de la Radiocommunication Professionelle) Product Trophy

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) was awarded the CRP 2007 (Congres de la Radiocommunication Professionelle) Product Trophy in Paris for its SuperneT™ Radio Gateway ST2860. The CRP Product Trophy Award recognises innovation, added value, technology, generated savings, target market, ergonomic, flexibility and evolution capabilities. This award was organised in conjunction with the CRP 2007, a leading exhibition for Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) in France.

International Management Action Award 2007

Mr Seah Moon Ming, President of ST Electronics, was one of the three outstanding managers who were conferred the International Management Action Award (IMAA) administered by the Chartered Management Institute. The IMAA is an international award to recognise outstanding individuals who have demonstrated exceptional ability in taking management action to achieve sustainable, tangible results for an organisation, society and nation.

IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2007

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) and its customer ComfortDelGro jointly received the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2007in recognition of ST Electronics’ cetrac® iCab solution for its contribution to the engineering progress in Singapore. The project, “CityNet II – The Next Generation Taxi Booking and Despatch System”, is a fully home-grown system that allows different taxi fleet companies to share a common system while maintaining their business independence and identity. The IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2007 was organised by the Singapore Institute of Engineers to recognise the outstanding achievements of engineers for engineering projects in Singapore. This recognises achievements that demonstrate outstanding engineering skills that have made a significant contribution to the engineering progress and quality of life in Singapore.

CityNetII had also previously won the Singapore National Infocomm Awards 2006 (Merit) for Most Innovative Use of Infocomm Technology (Private Sector) category.

Cisco Systems’ Gold Partner Certification &
Best Customer Satisfaction Achievement Award 2006

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) has been awarded the prestigious dual honour of Gold Partner Certification and Best Customer Satisfactin Achievement Award by Cisco Systems . Gold Certified Partners are recognised for having some of the industry's best trained network engineers with high level of expertise in planning, designing, implementing and supporting Cisco network solutions. These awards represent a strong vote of confidence from Cisco Systems recognising ST Electronic' commitment in delivering world-class technical support and expertise, service and solutions to customers.

Best in Security Product Award by PC Professionel Test Labs 2006

ST Electronics (Info-Security)'s DigiSAFE DiskCrypt won the Best in Security Product Award presented by PC Professional Test Labs at the Computex Taipei 2006 Expo. DiskCrypt was chosen from amongst many global brands after several days of live tests conducted by an industry expert panel. PC Professional is one of Europe's top IT magazines with a test centre in Munich evaluating computing products. DiskCrypt, which protects data stored in the harddisk of notebooks comes with a KeyCrypt token for strong two-factors authentication, was declared winner in the hardware mobility product category.

Singapore National Infocomm Awards 2006 (Merit)
- Most Innovative Infocomm Product/Service Category

— i-Transport System

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems)'s i-Transport was awarded the coveted Singapore National Infocomm Awards 2006 (Merit) - Most Innovative Infocomm Product/Service Category. With support from the Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA), i-Transport was developed and successfully implemented to fully integrate existing Intelligent Transport Solutions (ITS) in Singapore into a unified, intelligent and interactive operations platform. This system has provided operational synergy and resource optimisation to LTA and significant benefits to road users. The NIA 2006 was jointly organised by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF). It represents the highest accolade for infocomm innovation in Singapore.

Singapore National Infocomm Awards 2006 (Merit)
- Most Innovative Use of Infocomm Technology (Private Sector) category

— CityNet II - Next Generation Taxi Booking and Despatch System

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems)'s customer - ComfortDelGro, received a Merit Award for the "Integrated Transport Management System - CityNet II". The system was developed by ST Electronics for ComfortDelGro to enable the easy communication of its taxi booking and despatch system and infrastructure capacity among its different taxi fleets, thereby lowering the cost of business.

Asia Brand - Ten Most Prospective Brands Award 2006

ST Electronics was awarded the Asia Brand Prospective Brands Award. The award was jointly organised by government agencies and the media of China namely, the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Department, China Business Times, China Economic Information Bureau, Famous Brand Times and Asia International Famous & Fine Brand Attestation Centre. This inaugural Asia Brand Award Grand Ceremony was set up to recognise companies that have shown innovation in developing and marketing quality products, technologies and marketing quality products, technologies and businesses in Asia, particularly China.

Asia Brand Innovation - Ten Most Outstanding Personality 2006

Mr Seah Moon Ming, President of ST Electronics received the Asia Brand Innovation - Ten Most Outstanding Personality Award. This award recognises his strong leadership and business skills in international market expansion which has set a direction of strong brand and product innovation on a continual basis.

Computex 2006 Awards

The DigiSAFE DiskCrypt was named the Best in Security Product Award by PC Professionell Test Labs at the Computex Taipei 2006 Expo. The winner was chosen amongst many global brands after several days of live tests at the show by the industry expert panel. DiskCrypt is designed and developed by DigiSAFE Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of ST Electronics. DigiSAFE Pte Ltd has been renamed ST Electronics (Info-Security) Pte Ltd in January 2007. PC Professionell is one of the Europe's top IT magazines with test center in Munich evaluating computing products. Establishing presences at major global IT trade fairs, such as CeBIT Hannover, the Live Test Center once again set up its test lab at Computex Taipei - Asia's premier IT exhibition. The lab experts tested more than 200 product brands in 5 different categories during the one-week exhibition from 06 to 10 June 2006. DiskCrypt was declared the winner in the hardware mobility product category which protects the data stored in the notebook's hard disk, and comes with KeyCrypt token for strong 2-factors authentication.

Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2004

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte Ltd — formerly known as CET Technologies Pte Ltd, together with the Land Transport Authority was awarded the Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2004 by the Institution of Engineers Singapore. This was in recognition of the development of the i-Transport System, a highly intelligent and autonomous system that integrates the various intelligent transportation sub-systems. It is an interactive and unified operation platform designed to increase operational efficiency, bringing traffic management to a higher level.

One major innovation of the i-Transport is the deployment of Expert System Inference techniques to automate decision support for traffic management. This helps reduce operator response time in restoring traffic flow to normal conditions during traffic incidents. The implementation of the “i-Transport” enhances operational effectiveness, co-ordination with public safety agencies, as well as road safety and efficiency for road users.

Associate of the Arts Award 2004

Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited was awarded the Associate of the Arts Award by the National Arts Council, Singapore for its support of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. This award was instituted in 1999 to recognise corporations and individuals for their contributions towards the development of the Arts in Singapore.

US Tech Museum Award 2004 (Health Category)

The team, comprising members from the ST Electronics, Chartered Electro-Optics and Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA), won the award for adapting military technology in a creative way in developing the Infra-red Fever Screening System (IFss) which was used worldwide as the frontline defence against SARS during the outbreak in 2003.

Annually, the Tech honours 25 outstanding individuals or teams around the world for their pioneering work to benefit society through the use/development of new technologies. Five awards are given in each of the five categories : Health, Education, Equality, Economic Development and Environment. This year, some 320 applications were submitted from 80 countries.

Zhan Tian You Award 2003

Hangzhou Modern City project won the national Zhan Tian You Award from the Institute of Civil Engineering under the Ministry of Construction, China. The Zhan Tianyou Civil Engineering Prize is jointly awarded by the China Civil Engineering Society and the Zhan Tianyou Civil Engineering Science and Technology Fund to encourage technical innovation and development in civil engineering. The Hangzhou Modern City Central Area (Phase 1) Intelligent Community project is ST Electronics (Shanghai)’s first intelligent community project comprising the meticulous design of integrated and intelligent security management systems, home automation system, communication systems and automated property management system. ST Electronics (Shanghai) was officially awarded in December 2003 the design and construction of the Hangzhou Modern City Central Area (Phase 2).

Singapore Innovation Class (i-Awards)
- Innovative Organisation of the Year (2003)

ST Electronics is part of the Singapore Technologies Engineering Group that won the Singapore Innovation Awards – Innovative Organisation of the Year 2003. This award from SPRING Singapore recognises and celebrates organisations with exceptional capability success. The assessment is based on an Innovation scorecard that focuses on four key areas — Conditions, Culture, Competencies and Connectivity.

Time Magazine’s Coolest Invention of the Year 2003

The Infrared Fever Screening System (IFss), jointly developed by ST Electronics, Chartered Electro-Optics Pte Ltd and the Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA), was named as one of the ‘Coolest Invention of the Year’ by Times Magazine in November 2003. ST Electronics now joins the ranks of world renowned innovative companies in Time Magazine’s annual listing of the world’s best inventions.

AOEAA & IESPEAA 2003

ST Electronics’ technology solutions that were developed to help the nation combat SARS in 2003 had also caught the eyes of the IES (Institute of Engineers, Singapore) and won both the ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award 2003 (AOEAA) and the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2003 (IESPEAA) for its project – “SARS – Combating Innovations: IFss & C-T&T." (C-T&T refers to a Contact Track & Trace solution, a joint effort by ST Electronics and DSTA to develop a more efficient means of tracking visitor movements in a hospital through the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.

Defence Technology Prize (DTP) 2003

ST Electronics’ wholly owned subsidiary, ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Pte Ltd — formerly known as SES Systems Pte Ltd, won the DTP Engineering Team Award 2003 jointly with Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) for the Enterprise Command & Control Information System project. Together, they have innovatively used information technology towards efficient assets and information management.

Defence Technology Prize (DTP) 2002

The Defence Technology Prize (DTP) Team Award 2002 was received for joint development of “Air Command and Control Hub” project by DSTA, Republic of Singapore Air Forces, DSO National Laboratories and ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Pte Ltd — formerly known as SES Systems Pte Ltd.

2002 Business Excellence Award (Taiwan)

ST Electronics (Taiwan) was awarded the 2002 Business Excellence Award by The Finance Department of the Taipei City Government.

People Developer Standard

ST Electronics is among the pioneer batch of companies to be awarded the PSB People Developer Standard.

The People Developer Standard by the Productivity & Standards Board is to human resource development what ISO 9000 is to quality management for organisations. It sets a standard for organisations as a benchmark and provides guidelines for implementing an effective system for staff training and development. The standard offers organisations a systematic process for reviewing human resource practices and developing the potential of their staff.

Our Quality and EHS Management

ISO9001:2000 Certification ST Electronics has been certified to ISO 9001:2000 standard on January 2002. This certification is another milestone achievement by ST Electronics in maintaining the robustness of its quality system and processes. It also reflects the readiness of the company to react to any change in global requirements for our products and services. ISO14001 & OHSAS 18001 Certifications ST Electronics obtained the ISO14001 Environmental Health & Safety Management and OHSAS18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management certification. This certification is given to organisations that have successfully managed occupational health and safety performance risks while improving performance. Singapore Quality Class (SQC) ST Electronics has been inducted into the PSB Singapore Quality Class for having achieved business excellence. The SQC accords recognition to ST Electronics for attaining a commendable level of performance based on the Singapore Quality Award (SQA) framework in its quality journey. This is achieved over time, with continuous improvements through benchmarking and other PSB assistance programmes. The key objective for this journey is to develop into a world-class organisation, able to achieve sustainable high performance and quality.

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