CLEVELAND,
OH-The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) invites
industry-leading companies to submit an entry for its 2010 Awards of Excellence
in Metalforming. Presented annually,
these awards recognize the high standards of achievement set by the
metalforming industry in the areas of design, quality, training and education, safety,
productivity, process control and product development.
Companies
honored with Awards of Excellence receive prominent coverage in
MetalForming magazine; recognition at PMA’s
Annual Meeting and the 2010 FABTECH tradeshow; a $1,500 cash prize and
commemorative plaque; and key presence on PMA’s website, visited by nearly
100,000 industry professionals annually.
The
2010 awards will recognize excellence within the following areas:
- The Higgins-Caditz Design Award, the industry's highest
recognition for designing and engineering excellence, is presented to an
innovative metalforming company for creative and effective product design.
- The A.R. Hedberg Training and Education Award recognizes a PMA
member company for notable efforts to technically train and educate its
employees by instituting a total training program throughout the company.
- The Waukesha Metal Products Excellence in Quality Award recognizes
a PMA manufacturing member for outstanding achievement in the development
and implementation of a company-wide quality system that effectively uses
continuous improvement.
- The Pitcher Insurance Agency Safety Award recognizes a
metalforming company for either an effective comprehensive safety program
or a specific innovative idea in the context of an effective safety
program.
- The Link Systems Process Control Award promotes the application of
electronic analog closed-loop process controls in metalforming by
recognizing innovative electronic solutions (implemented by a North
American manufacturing company) that have resulted in significant quality,
cost reduction and/or productivity improvements.
- The Ulbrich Award for Competitive Excellence in Product Development recognizes
a metalforming company that develops and manufactures a product that best
utilizes metal in place of a competitive material, or that develops
a product using flat-rolled material at a significant cost reduction to
customers on a product that was previously manufactured using more costly
manufacturing processes.
-
The Zierick Manufacturing Corporation Productivity Award recognizes
outstanding achievement by a PMA manufacturing member in the development
and implementation of programs, processes and utilization of assets that
lead to significant improvements in productivity.
- The Clips and Clamps Industries Educational Institution Award recognizes
a public or private educational institution that provides exemplary
training and education services to companies in the metalforming industry.
Applications
for the 2010 Awards of Excellence in Metalforming must reach PMA no later than May
31, 2010. Complete details and an
online entry form are available at
www.pma.org/awards.
