Champions for Quality Awards

2021 Champions for Quality Awards Winners.

The 4th annual Champions for Quality Awards feature public award nominations from manufacturers around the world as well as insight-driven awards from the EASE plant floor audit platform. The awards recognize individuals, specific manufacturing facilities and entire organizations across a range of categories. Congratulations to our 2021 winners for your ongoing and consistent commitment to manufacturing quality.

Public nominated awards.

The following award winners and honorable mentions were all nominated by the pubic and selected by a panel of Ease employees based on the stories and information provided.

Award Icon

Ambassador

Ambassadors are known for fostering a culture of quality at their manufacturing plants with layered process audits and other quality initiatives.

Winners

Itze Porras, Valeo

Juarez, Mexico

Award Icon

Influencer

Influencers have dedicated their careers to training leaders and influencing quality on a global scale.

Winners

Dorian Ross, Yanfeng

McCalla, AL

Honorable Mentions

Danijela Zupanic, HBPO

Ontario, Canada

Charity Andrews, SRG Global, LLC

Kentucky, USA

Award Icon

Leadership

Leadership nominees are strong advocates for quality and operations programs with organization-wide benefits. This year two individuals stood out from the rest for their outstanding leadership and we are delighted to announce to Leadership Award winners.

Winners

Matt Dulebohn – Musashi

Michigan, USA

Amanda Gross – Magna

Tennessee, USA

Honorable Mentions

Jason Viers, MacLean-Fogg CS

Michigan, USA

Eric Collins, Freudenberg Filtration Technologies

Kentucky, USA

Award Icon

Trailblazer

For this category, the nominees had to use EASE plant floor audit software for more than just layered process audits, leveraging the platform for other audit types including safety audits, 5S, and more.

Winners

Stacy Laffoon, Jupiter Bach

Florida, USA

Honorable Mentions

Ricardo Pineda, SLPT Global Pump Group

Oklahoma, USA

Categories based on EASE data.

The following category winners and honorable mentions were determined using insights data from the EASE plant floor audit platform, recognizing individuals, specific manufacturing facilities and entire organizations for their commitment to quality excellence!

Award Icon

Plant of the Year

The Winner of this award was required to be conducting a minimum of 2,500 plant floor audits per year and creating at least 500 mitigations in the same period. To choose the winner the Ease team looked at a combination of weighted audit insights including the percentage of on-time completed plant floor audits and on-time completed mitigations.

Winners

Eaton Electric Equipment, Changzhou Plant

China

Honorable Mentions

Nemak, García Plant 1

Mexico

Nemak, García Plant 2

Mexico

Magna, Saint Thomas Ontario Plant, Cosma Structures Group

Canada

Exemplis, Tijuana Plant

Mexico

Award Icon

Auditor of the Year

A plant floor auditor is not a dedicated position within a manufacturing plant, but a role carried out by employees across the plant – including those that may not be part of quality or operations. The EASE platform includes a gamification feature that awards badges to auditors based on performance. The winner of this category was required to already hold an EASE Guru badge and was chosen based on audit completion rate, the number of audits completed and audit findings with the majority of their audits being focused on quality audits such as layered process audits.

Winners

Alessio Petaccia, Dayco

Chieti Site

Award Icon

Best Implementation

The Customer Success Team implements EASE at hundreds of plants every year. The winner was chosen based on their engagement throughout the implementation from pilot to final deployment, their advocacy throughout the process, as well as the team’s audit activity and completion rates in the weeks and months following the go-live.

Winners

Unified Brands – Vicksburg/Weidman Plants

USA

Honorable Mentions

Lansing Campus , Dakkota Systems

Evan Urbanski

Czech Republic, Eissman

Marie Krizkova

Award Icon

Quality Transformation

The winner of this award is the manufacturer that has demonstrated the most significant improvement in performance within the EASE platform over a 12-month period across all of their facilities. During this period the winner had to meet a number of minimum benchmark data points as well as have the highest percentage increase in on-time audits and mitigations.

Winners

Maclean Fogg

Award Icon

Outstanding Contributions to Quality

This is a new award in 2021 and recognizes an organization that has demonstrated exceptional performance in quality across multiple award categories, multiple plants and through multiple nominated individuals. This year’s winner had 3 plants ranked in the top ten and strong representation is every award category.

Winners

Dana

See the difference with EASE.

Find out how you can turn your audits from an administrative burden into bottom line impact.

50%
Reduction in quality costs
85%
Less time spent on admin
40%
Increase in audit completion rate
2%
Increase in OEE

* Examples of what customers have achieved with EASE