AIAG Honors Outstanding Volunteers at Annual Awards Dinner

DETROIT, May 16, 2006 -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) recognized its volunteers for their outstanding contributions to the automotive industry at last night's 20th annual AIAG Outstanding Achievement Awards Dinner at the Troy Marriott in Troy, Mich.

AIAG honored four Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and 20 Individual Achievement Award recipients for their merits in 2005. Their exceptional commitment and dedication produced industry guidelines and international standards to reduce rework, error and scrap throughout the automotive supply chain and help sustain the profitable growth of the industry.

Jan Beauchamp, general manager global automotive, aerospace and defense industries, IBM Corp., delivered the event's keynote speech and congratulated each of the recipients.

  Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients
  Lifetime Achievement

  Jessie W. Alderson       Trinary Systems, Inc.
  Richard A. Caste         DaimlerChrysler Corporation
  William M. Harral        Arch Associates LLC (Posthumous)
  Tripp Martin             International Automotive Oversight Bureau

  Individual Achievement

  Glen Allan               Ford Motor Company
  Dr. Sandra A. Ashford    Ford Motor Company
  John M. Domutz           DaimlerChrysler Corporation
  Michael Down             General Motors Corporation
  Dr. Joseph Fortuna       Delphi Corporation
  John Horst               National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Nenad Ivezic             National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Jerod F. Long            General Motors Corporation
  Philip Marlow            Visteon Corporation
  Philip C. Mikula         TRW Automotive Inc.
  Kevin W. Mixer           General Motors Corporation
                           (Formerly with AMR Research)
  Terry Onica              QAD Inc.
  Gary Pilarski            Delphi Corporation
  Dan Roche                ArvinMeritor, Inc.
  Wendy Rossman            Mark IV Automotive
  Joe Schafer              UGS
  Patricia A. Toufar       Infor Global Solutions, Inc.
  Joerg Alexander Vollmer  Bosch Systeme de Freinage
  Robert D. Waite          DaimlerChrysler Corporation
  Craig Williams           Metaldyne

  About AIAG

Founded in 1982, AIAG is a globally recognized organization where OEMs and suppliers unite to address and resolve issues affecting the worldwide automotive supply chain. AIAG's goals are to reduce cost and complexity through collaboration; improve product quality, health, safety and the environment; and optimize speed to market throughout the supply chain. Headquartered in the metro Detroit area, its more than 1,500 member companies include North American, European and Asia-Pacific OEMs and suppliers to the automotive industry. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.aiag.org/ .