OREANDA-NEWS. November 30, 2010. During a seminar for KAMAZ suppliers held in Naberezhnye Chelny within the limits of the Days of Quality in the Republic of Tatarstan, a conclusion was drawn: “High quality of production of auto components manufacturers, compliance of their quality management system with the requirements of ISO/TU 16949 standards, and the further development of suppliers’ production and technologies guarantees their successful cooperation with OJSC KAMAZ”.

This formula became the tenor of the first address on the seminar delivered by Alexander Abramenko, Director of Quality Department of OJSC KAMAZ. Ildar Mingaleev, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, told about the main directions of the state policy of the Republic of Tatarstan and implementation of a technical regulation reform. Speeches were also given by specialists in the sphere of quality assurance – representatives of companies VNIIS, OOO TKB Intersertifika, OOO BIZNES-KONSALT, managers and leading specialists of KAMAZ. Rishat Kaviev, Director of Purchasing and Logistics, specified the requirements of the auto giant to its suppliers. Igor Savelyev, Director of Strategic Analysis Group of OJSC KAMAZ, shared with those present an experience of development control stored by Daimler.

The participants of the seminar visited the mother assembly conveyor of the automobile plant to see what had changed due to development of Production System KAMAZ. Results were summed up at the end of the seminar. The event was successfully organized thanks to employees of KAMAZ’s Quality Department and Corporate University.

“The ISO/TU 16949 standard brought KAMAZ up to a new round of development,” said Yury Klochkov, First Deputy Director General of OJSC KAMAZ, CEO, in his final speech at the seminar. “Issues of quality and its standards become especially topical in connection with Russia’s planned WTO accession. Partnership with Daimler also stimulates us to improve quality of produced vehicles. In our turn, we require high quality products from our suppliers too. It is logical. Only this way we can maintain and keep our positions in the market. We are able to develop further only if we improve quality. Unfortunately, we have to forward more than half of claims made for replacement of vehicles to suppliers of components. For the present, our partners are ready to replace a defective detail, unit or material. But we need an absolutely different approach: we should eliminate the number of defects made through a producer’s or suppliers’ fault.