OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2010. Modern materials were used to renew a floor coating, new general and local lighting fixtures were mounted, capital and auxiliary equipment, tool sets, tares and working spaces were repaired and painted on two lines of the mother vehicle assembly conveyor and in a vehicle kitting and delivery shop with a gross area of about 200 thousand square meters. Industrial engineering was adjusted in accordance with the requirements of the KAMAZ Production System. Earlier the same sanitation was carried out on a cab assembly conveyor, too.

Today Yury Klochkov, First Deputy Director General – CEO of OJSC KAMAZ presented top managers of KAMAZ plants and subsidiaries a renovated vehicle assembly unit. He explained to his colleagues that sanitation expenses made 115 million roubles, and a part of costs (of 92 million roubles) has already been reimbursed during the past 5 months of the year. Thereby, in the second half year they will be fully compensated. In addition, 45 thousand square meters of areas were vacated as a result of the production reorganization.

The chief thing is that productivity of labour noticeably grew by the new production organization – now it is twice as high as it was before the start of the reorganization. The personnel’s attitude to work and build quality of vehicles changed for the better. Yury Klochkov also said that sanitation and reorganization would be carried out in the whole building of the automobile plant, and the finishing production of the company would share its experience with other KAMAZ plants and subdivisions.

The workers of the assembly production of the automobile plant characterized the changes in labour conditions briefly: “Now we have everything like in Europe!”