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QM 0123 CLMN From the Editor Darryl Seland
Column | Darryl Seland

From the Editor: Riddle Me This

Aristotle and self-drive cars.
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Darryl Seland
March 14, 2023
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In the quality industry, dealing with big data can feel like battling extraneous detail and being ever vigilant against poor assumptions. With millions of points of data, we can be overwhelmed by what is important and what is not.


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Quality Plant of the Year Winner

2023 Quality Plant of the Year: Reed Switch Developments

The annual Quality Plant of the Year has a strong past and a bright future.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
March 1, 2023
5 Comments

Under Debra Dahlin's leadership, WBE-certified Reed Switch Developments Corp. (RSD) has grown steadily, despite a series of recessions, a global pandemic, and a major pivot from primarily standard parts into small-to-medium volume custom ones. Read more about the 2023 Quality Plant of the Year winner.


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2022 Quality Plant of the Year: Larsen Manufacturing

Larsen Manufacturing is an industry leader in quality systems and quality assurance.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
March 2, 2022
4 Comments

For their dedication to quality, Larsen Manufacturing (Mundelein, IL) has earned our 2022 Quality Plant of the Year award.


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2021 Quality Plant of the Year: Electromed, Inc.

This medical device company and essential business faced extraordinary pressure to keep up with demand while managing its own safety in a pandemic.
Genevieve Diesing
March 5, 2021
6 Comments

The single most important thing manufacturing leaders can do to engage their employees is to share the ‘why’ behind their daily work, says Kathleen Skarvan, CEO at New Prague, MN-based Electromed—Quality’s 2021 Plant of the Year.


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2020 Quality Plant of the Year

2020 Quality Plant of the Year: Woodward's Rock Cut Campus

Rock Solid Quality: Quality is only second to safety
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
March 2, 2020
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When your production is set to in-crease tenfold, it’s time to expand.


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2019 Quality Plant of the Year

2019 Quality Plant of the Year: Quality Takes Flight at Northrop Grumman's Palmdale Center of Excellence

Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
February 28, 2019
One Comment

If you ever get a chance to watch an aircraft being built, take it. Walking through the aircraft hangar at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, CA, facility, you will see two unmanned aircraft, each with a 130-foot wingspan, parked behind yellow tape. The scale of the aircraft and the desert setting make it feel like a movie set.


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Accurate Gauge & Manufacturing (Rochester Hills, MI).

Accurate Gauge & Manufacturing, our 2018 Quality Plant of the Year, continues to improve.

Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
March 1, 2018
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Greg Mann doesn’t want to brag. Although he’s proud of the company’s work, he isn’t satisfied. “We’re just getting started,” says Mann, the operations manager at Accurate Gauge & Manufacturing (Rochester Hills, MI). 


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2017 Quality Plant of the Year

The Drive for Continuous Improvement

Meet PACCAR Engine Company, our 2017 Quality Plant of the Year.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
March 1, 2017
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If you aren’t excited about manufacturing today, you might need to visit Mississippi. There you’ll find the PACCAR Engine Company (PEC) plant, where process improvement has been a constant since its launch in June 2010.


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From the Editor, Darryl Seland

Words.

Striving to put right what once went wrong.
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Darryl Seland
March 1, 2016
One Comment

We have a tendency to overuse certain words. I know this because on an annual basis many media outlets publish lists of the most overused words of the year. It usually happens in December to commemorate the end of the year. 


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Management Winona

Rolling Along

Meet Winona PVD Coatings, our 2016 Quality Plant of the Year.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
March 1, 2016
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Winona PVD Coatings takes quality so seriously that out of the almost 1.5 million wheels shipped in the past ten years, the company has seen the number of returns in the single digits. 


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