Still Time for Plant of the Year Nominations

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BENSENVILLE, ILASSEMBLY magazine is still accepting applications for its 2nd annual Assembly Plant of the Year award for 2005. The goal of the Assembly Plant of the Year award is to identify a state-of-the-art facility that has applied world-class processes to reduce production cost, increase productivity, shorten time to market or improve product quality.

Anyone can nominate a plant-employees, suppliers and casual observers are all welcome to make submissions. Any assembly plant in the United States is eligible. Plant size or the type of industry is not important, as long as the facility is involved in joining discrete parts into finished products.

Deadline for submissions is April 15. An online form is also available at www.assemblymag.com. All nominations will be evaluated by a group of outside experts as well as ASSEMBLY's editorial staff.

The 2005 Assembly Plant of the Year award will be announced at the Assembly Technology Expo in September. The winning plant will receive a crystal trophy and a commemorative banner. Kenworth Truck Co.'s Renton, WA, plant received the 2004 Assembly Plant of the Year award and was featured in the November 2004 issue of the magazine.

The ASSEMBLY Show South

ASSEMBLY is thrilled to return to the Music City Center in Nashville, TN for The ASSEMBLY Show SOUTH on May 1-2, 2024. This is a booming time for manufacturing and the U.S. South is right in the heart of the action. According to ASSEMBLY’s most recent annual capital spending survey, the South is projected to account for 31 percent of total spending this year, marking the fifth straight year this region has accounted for at least 30 percent of capital spending in the U.S.

In this session, manufacturers will learn how Quality function deployment (QFD) can transform consumers’ qualitative demands into quantitative parameters that will shape the design of their product and, ultimately, their manufacturing process.

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