Winners of the Alabama Quality Award
Tuscaloosa, AL-- AlliedSignal of Anniston, The City of Mobile, Lockheed Martin, Pike County Operations, Mountain Brook City Schools, and St. Vincent's Hospital of Birmingham have been named winners of the 1998 Alabama Quality Award. The winners were evaluated on: leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, information and analysis, human resource development and management, process management, and business results.
AlliedSignal, a repair and overhaul unit for the after-market of the aerospace industry, and the City of Mobile are both winners in the Service Sector. Lockheed Martin, winner in the manufacturing Sector, performs explosive loading, final assembly, integration, test and storage ordinance/missle systems in support of Lockheed Martin Electronics and Missiles of Orlando, Florida. Mountain Brook City Schools, a school system located in Southeast Jefferson County, is winner of the Education Sector. St. Vincent's Hospital, a non-profit, acute care facility, is the winner of the Health Care Sector.
Winners of the Award of Excellence in continuous productivity and quality improvement are Copeland Corporation of Hasrtselle, the world's leading producer of one-to five horsepower air conditioning and refrigeration compressors. Dana Corporation Spicer Trailer Products Division of Anniston, a manufacturer of brake shoes for heavy trucks and truck trailers; Dana Corporation of Montgomery, a trailer axle manufacturer, and Dudley C. Jackson, Inc., a specialized industrial distributor.
Finalists for the award were Meyer Real Estate, Weinacker's Montessori School, and Fort James' Towel and Tissue Group. Semifinalists were University Hospital, Athens Limestone Hospital Home Health, Springe Industries--Piedmont Distribution, and Alabama Ductile.
The Alabama Quality Award, modeled after the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, honors organizations whose recent innovations increased productivity and quality within the organization. The improvement efforts should be formal techniques or practices that are capable of being shared with other organizations with the expectation they will be replicated and contribute to state and national productivity and quality improvement.
The Alabama Quality Award has been administered by the Alabama Productivity Center since 1986.
The awards will be presented at the Alabama Quality Award Conference and ceremony scheduled for October 12-13 at the Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa. For details of the conference or to register for the event, contact Linda Vincent at the Alabama Productivity Center (205) 348-8994
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