Quality
Initiatives for Improving Quality
Our automotive products are critical safety components, where failures can directly affect human life. To ensure the safety and peace of mind of end users, we are maintaining a quality management system as part of initiatives to enhance quality under VIII MTP.
We also formulated the “Principle” as second in importance only to our Basic Philosophy. It defines the basic principles that are the top priority for our quality management on which all employees of the Group should base their decisions and actions. As described above, “Safety and Quality” is the most important and fundamental precept of the Group, which is given priority over our management policy. We offer education and training sessions to ensure this Principle is made known to not only new hires but also all employees. The Principle is also recited every day in an attempt to ensure it permeates the entire Group.
Our quality management activities are led by the Quality Control Committee, chaired by the director in charge of quality, and we work daily to ensure safe and secure products for end users.
【Principle】
As a manufacturer of important safety parts,
we focus on fundamentals in all our day-to-day
operations to reliably supply safe products.
We are driven by the motto
Don't
buy
make
pass on
defects
Every day, we rise to the challenge of pursuing excellence
in manufacturing.
| Quality Control Committee | Chaired by the director in charge of quality, the Committee reviews and deliberates on quality management matters, makes decisions, oversees implementation, verifies headquarters activities, and implements customer satisfaction and quality cost improvement initiatives. |
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| QMS Control Representative Council | Effectively manages and implements improvements and integration of the quality management system and develops people and environmental conditions necessary for its operation. |
| Quality Issue Recurrence Prevention Committee | Works to prevent serious market or product complaints before they occur, and if they do arise, implements swift and reliable recurrence-prevention measures. |
| SAQM Verification Committee | Promotes measures to address in-process defects and verifies the effectiveness of such measures. |
Quality Management System
Each of our sites has obtained certification for both ISO 9001, the international standard for quality management systems, and IATF 16949, a specialized standard for the automotive parts industry. And we have constructed a management system that meets the strict requirements necessary for automotive components
| ●ISO9001 | ：11 sites in Japan/8 sites overseas |
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| ●IATF16949 | ：9 sites in Japan/16 sites overseas |
Quality Awareness Activities
We develop products with due consideration to safety and provide customers with such products. In cases when we receive any safety-related information, we immediately confirm the fact, and if it turns out that any safety issue is present, we report it to the departments and people concerned in house, and take prompt and sincere responses to identify the cause and prevent the expansion of accidents and re-occurrence.
QE Circle Activities
Our Group is also rolling out Quality Education (QE) circle activities, which are improvement activities for small groups. These activities are part of a bottom-up approach to improving quality, and are being implemented not only by members on the production line, but by all employees, including those involved in development, design, and head office functions
Quality Learning Corner
We have established a Quality Learning Corner in our design offices as a place where employees can learn about quality problems, and make sure that past quality problems are not repeated. In the Quality Learning Corner,lessons learned from past problems with quality are consistently passed on the new generations, leading to improvements in the quality of new products