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Managing Automation Media Announces Winners of the 2009 PM100
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NEW YORK, NY, March 10 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Managing Automation Media, a Thomas Publishing
Company, LLC publication, has announced the Winners of its fifth annual
Progressive Manufacturing 100 Awards. The PM100 recognizes 100 projects
that have achieved distinction in at least one of the eight core
disciplines defined by Managing Automation Media as critical to business
success in the years ahead. These disciplines are: Business Model Mastery,
Customer Mastery, Supply Network Mastery, Data & Integration Mastery,
Innovation Mastery, Training & Education Mastery, Leadership, and
Operational Excellence.
An independent judging panel chaired by David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief,
Managing Automation Media, and Jeff Moad, Executive Editor, Managing
Automation, reviewed project nominations. Judges included:
-- Lisa Bodell, CEO, FutureThink
-- Tim Hanley, Vice Chairman and U.S. Process & Industrial Products
Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
-- Brad Heath, President, VirTex Assembly Services, Inc. (PM Winner)
-- Ivan Hovey, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Manager, Freescale
Semiconductor
-- James M. Joyner, Director of Lean, Quality & Service, Card-Monroe
-- Jay Lee, Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio Eminent Scholar & L.W. Scott Alter
Chair Professor Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
-- Paul E. Martin, Global Chief Information Officer, Rexam Plc (2005
Award Winner)
-- Robert Parker, VP, Research, Manufacturing Insights
-- Maureen Steinwall, President, Steinwall Inc. (2006 Award Winner)
-- Joe Tocci, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Intertape Polymer
Group
-- Steven Vidakovic, Technology and Knowledge Integration, Global Supply
Chain, Pfizer Inc. (2007 Award Winner)
-- Ray Wang, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
-- Mark Yatskievych, Manager, Technical Support, General Dynamics (2008
Progressive Manufacturer of the Year)
-- Emily Stover DeRocco, President, Manufacturing Institute, Senior Vice
President National Association of Manufacturers
-- David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media
The PM100 Winners will be honored and presented with their awards at the
Progressive Manufacturing Awards Gala to be held on the last day of the
Progressive Manufacturing Summit 2009: Redefining the Business of
Manufacturing in Turbulent Economic Times, June 9-11, at the Ritz-Carlton
in Sarasota, Florida. More than 200 manufacturing technology executives are
expected to attend. In addition to presenting the awards to the PM 100
Winners, Managing Automation Media will announce at the Gala Dinner High
Achievers and Sub-Category Winners in each of the 8 disciplines as well as
the 2009 Progressive Manufacturers of the Year at both a large and small
company.
"We look forward to recognizing and celebrating our Winners in front of an
audience of their peers across all facets of manufacturing at the
Progressive Manufacturing Summit in Sarasota this June," said Managing
Automation Media Publisher Heather Holst-Knudsen. "In these challenging
times, innovators and progressive manufacturers will be among the best
positioned to capitalize on a shifting landscape, both in the US and
globally."
The 2009 PM100 Winners are:
Alcoa, Inc.
Amcor Ltd.
ASML
ATI Industrial Automation, Inc.
Automation Engineering Corp. (winner for 5 separate projects)
Automation Federation
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Batesville Casket Co. (winner for 2 separate projects)
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
BigBelly Solar
Bosch Rexroth AG
BrassCraft Manufacturing Co.
Bridge Publications, Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Brocade Communications
Systems Inc.
Capral Aluminum Ltd.
Card-Monroe Corp.
Catalina Lighting, Inc.
Caterpillar
Chevron Corp.
chocolate potpourri ltd.
Chrysler LLC
CNH Global N.V.
CrystalTech
Custom Cupboards
Donghee Industrial Co. Ltd.
Double H Plastics Inc.
The Dow Chemical Co. (winner for 2 separate projects)
Dream it. Do it.
DriWater, Inc.
Emerson Network Power
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Genentech, Inc.
General Mills, Inc.
Golden Grain Energy, LLC
Graphic West Packaging
Machinery, LLC
Graphicast Inc.
Grayling Industries
Haskel International
IGT
Juice Harvest Corp.
Key Technology, Inc.
KLA-Tencor Corp.
L'Or?al
Lance, Inc.
Livingston & Haven
Lowepro USA
Mack Molding
Magnet Product Design &
Development
Maibec Inc.
Masco Corp.
McLaren Electronic Systems
Mercury Marine
Metalsa
Metrolina Greenhouses Inc.
MicroStrain, Inc.
Mohawk Fine Papers Inc.
Motorola, Inc.
New Belgium Brewing Co.
New Process Gear
Next Intent
Nobel Biocare
Nordson Corp.
OKAY Industries, Inc.
Organic Valley Family of Farms
Paper Island
Pfizer, Inc.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Radar Industries, Inc.
Rain CII Carbon LLC
Reiter Automotive Systems Ltd.
Rodgers Instruments LLC
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Sanmina-SCI Corp.
Sasol Ltd.
Sauer-Danfoss
Savage Sports Corp.
Severstal Wheeling Inc.
SKF USA Inc.
Solaicx
The Solaria Corp.
Spring Air
Stahlin Non-Metallic Enclosures
Symetrics Industries, LLC
Tennant Co.
Toshiba America, Inc.
TVS Motor Co.
Unirac Inc.
Utah Stamping Co.
VIBCO
Viracon, Inc.
VirTex Assembly Services, Inc.
Weston Bakeries Limited
"In the face of one of the worst economic downturns in history, these
winning companies dramatically underscore how the manufacturing industry
will not only get through this period, but emerge in an even stronger
position once a recovery takes hold," said David R. Brousell,
Editor-in-Chief of Managing Automation Media. "The projects that enabled
these companies to become PM100 winners reflect great creativity and
inventiveness, a determined willingness to take risk, and an enduring
resilience to continually improve every aspect of their business. These
companies are leading the way to a better future for all industry."
About Managing Automation Media
Managing Automation Media, a division of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC,
provides a complete set of decision-support informational tools for
executives and technology decision-makers at progressive manufacturers --
companies that are using information and automation technologies to
transform their businesses and create a sustainable competitive advantage.
In North America with Managing Automation, and now also in EMEA with
Manufacturing Executive, it delivers access to the most influential
decision-makers in manufacturing. Additional information can be found at
www.managingautomationmedia.com.
Contact:
Joanne Hogan
212 629 1104
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