Maintaining quality on customized trucks is all in a day’s work for this year’s Quality Plant of the Year winner, Daimler Trucks North America Cleveland Truck Manufacturing Plant.

When it comes to the plant of the year, the one thing that resonates with me year after year is how engaged all of the employees are. This year’s winner is no exception.

Today you can receive much of your quality information instantaneously.

Since the introduction of computers in the manufacturing process, the capabilities of SPC have grown.

Welcome to our golden anniversary. Quality Assurance, as we were originally known, launched in 1962, back at the early stages of the space exploration program and the dawn of man in space.

After a couple of dismal years, quality spending is expected to increase in 2011 to $2.6 billion, according to Quality Magazine’s Annual Spending Survey.

After a tumultuous couple of years, the quality industry is headed in the right direction and starting to gain ground, albeit slowly.

How has quality changed since you started in the industry, and how have the changes impacted your job?

People are no longer looking for equipment, software or services. They’re looking for solutions.

In mid-August a Boeing 737 on its way to San Andres Island, just off the coast of Columbia, fell short of the runway just before landing and skidded on its belly before splitting in three.