2024 Champions for Quality Awards Winners.
The 7th annual Champions for Quality Awards feature public award nominations from manufacturers worldwide and insight-driven awards from the EASE plant floor platform. The awards recognize individuals, specific manufacturing facilities, and entire organizations across a range of categories.
Congratulations to our 2024 winners for your ongoing commitment to manufacturing quality!
Public nominated awards.
These categories celebrate individual achievements from the plant floor to the quality department, the organization, and the industry at large. Nominations were submitted by the public as well as by Ease.io customers and affiliates; winners were selected by Ease.io based on the nomination entry.
Leadership
Executives who are strong advocates/sponsors for department-wide quality, safety, and operations programs at the senior stakeholder level.
Ambassador
Professionals who have dedicated their careers to the industry and to fostering a long-term culture of quality at their manufacturing plant(s).
Trailblazer
Users of the EASE platform not just for layered process audits (LPAs), but for other programs including safety audits, 5S, root cause analysis, and more.
Influencer
Momentum builders who generate excitement, interest, and buy-in for quality initiatives among their peers.
Promising Newcomer (New Category)
Early-career individuals (five years or less in the manufacturing industry) demonstrating standout potential to rise into a leadership role in quality.
Awards based on EASE data.
In addition to the nominated categories, the Champions for Quality Awards program includes four categories that recognize achievements based on EASE usage metrics and benchmarks.
Plant of the Year
Plants were evaluated on a combination of weighted audit insights including the percentage of on-time completed plant floor audits and on-time completed findings.
Winner
American Woodmark — South Branch Plant
Moorefield, West Virginia
Honorable Mentions
Dana
Zaragoza, Spain
Auditor of the Year
Users were assessed based on audit completion rate, total number of audits completed, and audit findings, with the majority of their audits being focused on quality like LPAs.
Winner
Frank Grogg – MRP Solutions
Plattsburgh, New York
Best Implementation
Teams were chosen based on their engagement during the implementation of EASE from pilot to final deployment, their advocacy throughout the process, and audit activity and completion rates in the weeks and months following their go-live date.
Winners
Stabilus Co. Ltd.
Busan, South Korea
Stabilus, S.A. de C.V.
Ramos Arizpe, Mexico
Stabilus (JiangSu) Ltd.
Changzhou, China
Stabilus (ZheJiang) Ltd.
Pinghu, China
Honorable Mentions
Cascade Die Casting Group, Inc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Toyo Tires
Indjija, Serbia
Quality Transformation
Teams were evaluated based on significant improvement in performance within the EASE platform over a 12-month period, including the highest percentage increase in on-time audits and mitigations.
Winner
Yanfeng
North American and European Automotive Interiors Division
Honorable Mention
Panasonic Automotive Systems Reynosa Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Reynosa, Mexico