Test-Drive of KAMAZ
Yury Klochkov, First Deputy Director General of OJSC KAMAZ – CEO tested a restyled KAMAZ vehicle.
For already several months OJSC KAMAZ has been practicing inspections including both visual examination of a specimen randomly chosen from a batch of new vehicles and test-drive of one of them.
2010 is announced the Year of Quality at KAMAZ. Besides, more and more restyled KAMAZ vehicles enter the country’s market. Therefore the company’s top managers’ participation in such events is clearly important.
After the tests Yury Klochkov expressed his opinion about engineering changes which should be made in the vehicle production process in front of the managers of R&D Center and the automobile plant.
According to Yury Klochkov, with intensively growing sales of restyled vehicles quality issues are becoming more important. The top manager named weekly meetings one of the measures enabling to solve quality problems. The meetings will be devoted to the most problem vehicle produced for the last week, and suggestions of construction and engineering changes will be put forward.
Great attention will be paid to the work with dealers. Yury Klochkov noted that the considerable part of reclamations exists because employees and, in the first place, drivers of the dealer network simply don’t know how to use new trucks with a more elaborate design than that of older types. It makes necessary to further intensively work with the staff of dealer enterprises. Fortunately, there are some enterprises able to render customers high quality services. However, there are still problems, and KAMAZ is to further promote principles of its Production System both at its enterprises and among its partners.
Wednesday, 07 April 2010
Tatarstan President Visited KAMAZ
On 7 April Rustam Minnikhanov for the first time in the capacity of Tatarstan President visited KAMAZ.
Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ, and Ildar Khalikov, Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny met him at the helicopter pad of KAMAZ.
Rustam Minnikhanov visited the industrial facilities of KAMAZ which symbolize technical and technological advance of the enterprise and the company’s integration into the European automobile industry. At first Rustam Minnikhanov visited KNORR-BREMSE KAMA JV producing brake systems for vehicles – the best enterprise of KAMAZ set up jointly with foreign partners according to the results of 2009.
Then the head of the republic visited the painting shop of Kama Frame-and-Stamping Plant which is preparing the launch of a new painting line of DÜRR cabs. This line put into operation will increase corrosion resistance of painted cab details and KAMAZ truck parts three times as much, secure high quality and ornamentality of paint-and-lacquer coating and considerably reduce the necessity of manual labour due to the use of 12 robot painters. Besides, the use of lead in paint-and-lacquer materials will completely be eliminated, the manufacturing entity will become less fire-hazardous, the qualtity of waste products will be reduced by 20%, and the total emission will be reduced by 50%. The 1.5 billion roubles project is coming to a close and will be launched in June 2010.
During the last decade Rustam Minnikhanov as Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan many times visited KAMAZ and participated in many events in the life and activity of the enterprise. With his personal assistance and all-round aid of the republican government Kama Industrial Park Master was created which became an industrial area for successful development of small and medium business near KAMAZ. Rustam Minnikhanov is a member of the KAMAZ-master team, many times as a pilot of the KAMAZ crew he won at the stages of the World Cup in off-road rallies.
Wednesday, 07 April 2010