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2002 California Award for Performance
Excellence Winners Announced
The California Awards for Performance Excellence
(CAPE) has announced its 2002 award winners for
excellence in the workplace. Boeing Company’s
C-17 program, based in Long Beach, captured top
honors with the only Gold-level award in this
year’s statewide competition.
Eleven award recipients were named, including the
first municipal award winner, the city of Sunnyvale,
and the first school district to win the prestigious
award, San Jose Unified School District.
Also recognized were the Boeing Military Aerospace
Support, a separate business unit within the C-17
program based in Long Beach; Candle Corporation, El
Segundo; Schurter, Inc., Santa Rosa; Kisco Senior
Living, Carlsbad; Glendale Adventist Medical Center,
Glendale; Riverside County Credit Union, Riverside;
and Duran & Venables, Milpitas.
The CAPE program recognizes companies, government
agencies, educational institutions, health care
facilities, and nonprofit organizations that have
addressed the Malcolm Baldrige Award criteria and
completed a thorough review and evaluation of their
application.
Yazaki North America Sponsors Quality
Control Circles Competition
Kennedy
Smith
Thanks to innovative thinking from quality gurus
like W. Edwards Deming, Shigeo Shingo, Joseph M.
Juran, and others, organizations from all over the
world have several options when it comes to
implementing a quality improvement initiative.
One such option is implementing quality control
circles, which have proved enormously successful for
Yazaki North America, a developer of advanced
electronic technologies for vehicle applications. So
successful, in fact, that the corporation has
developed the Quality Control Circles Competition,
highlighting the efforts of various teams throughout
the organization’s worldwide facilities.
“Who better to evaluate the processes in our
manufacturing plants than the employees who are
engaged every day?” comments Marc Gattoni,
quality director of Yazaki’s Component Business
Unit. “Quality is a highly competitive arena,
and we must constantly improve in order to maintain
our leadership position.”
Now in its third year, Yazaki’s quality
control circle program has expanded to include more
than 500 associates within the organization and has
more than doubled in the last two years.
To learn more about the company, visit www.yazaki-na.com
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Excerpted with permission from Quality
Digest, Vol. 22, No. 12, December 2002.
Canadian Quality Awards
Presented
Seven organizations were recently recognized for
continuous improvement through innovation,
productivity, a healthy workplace, and ethics by
Canada’s National Quality Institute. All of the
winners have increased efficiency, market share, and
employment opportunities, as well as becoming more
competitive internationally.
The 2002 Healthy Workplace Award was received by
Dofasco Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, and NCR,
Mississauga, Ontario. Quality Award recipients were
Dana Canada Inc., Spicer Driveshaft Group, Magog,
Quebec; Canada Post, Saskatoon Operations; Homewood
Health Centre, Guelph, Ontario; and Mullen Trucking,
Aldersyde, Alberta. A Quality Certificate of Merit
was also presented to CAE of Saint Laurent,
Quebec.
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