Accuride Corporation announced that Rick Dauch, its president and chief executive officer, has received the Quality Leader of the Year Award from the Automotive Division of the 80,000-member American Society for Quality (ASQ) at the organization's 2012 awards banquet in Rochester Hills MI. After joining Accuride in his current role in February 2011, Dauch launched a companywide initiative to adopt consistent quality systems and lean manufacturing principles as part of a drive to deliver more dependable performance.