At Vaupell's Midwest Molding and Tooling division in Constantine, Michigan, employees take part in a daily Quality/Productivity bingo game. In an effort to raise the quality awareness level among its workers, the industrial injection-molding company decided to offer a cash prize bingo game. By motivating workers to meet the company's goals, the bingo game serves as an identification tool of quality problems and their source.

Vaupell's 130 employees are all distributed bingo cards that they track on a daily basis according to the firm's quality reports. As long as quality complaints do not go over a set maximum, bingo numbers are being drawn. The games stops when someone wins the usual $100 prize.

According to Angela Pollard, Vaupell's quality manager, the game is a way to locate product rejections and identify employees responsible for them. Once the problem is investigated and solved, the bingo game starts anew.