WABCO Holdings Inc. has announced that WABCO-TVS (India) Ltd. has earned a “Zero PPM” quality award (zero defective parts-per-million) from Tata Motors, the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in India and the world’s second largest bus manufacturer as well as fourth largest truck manufacturer. Tata Motors has now increased worldwide sales of commercial vehicles by 46 percent over a three-year period to more than 312,000 units annually.
WABCO-TVS provides Tata Motors with pneumatic anti-lock braking systems and complete air brake systems for commercial vehicles. This award commends the consistently excellent quality and reliability of the products supplied by all of WABCO-TVS’s manufacturing facilities located in India. The award focuses on a performance period over the past three years. Mr. T. Rajagopalan, WABCO-TVS General Manager Original Equipment Sales, accepted the award from Mr. S.B. Borwankar, Plant Head, Tata Motors, Jamshedpur Plant, at the “Vendor Awards Ceremony 2008” recently held in Jamshedpur.
“As a leading global manufacturer of commercial vehicles, we are committed to setting and sustaining the industry’s highest requirements for quality and reliability,” says Anil Singh, general manager, Materials, Tata Motors, Jamshedpur Plant. “WABCO-TVS has demonstrated a track record of superlative results over a prolonged period of production volume growth. Our “Zero PPM” quality award acknowledges that WABCO-TVS has achieved the ultimate goal of supplying defect-free products on a continuous basis.”
“This award from Tata Motors marks our ability to deliver products with top-notch quality at increasingly higher volumes, year in, year out,” says Nikhil Varty, WABCO vice president, Compression and Braking. “Tata Motors has an aggressive roadmap for defect-free products and we are passionate about sustaining our mutual success through excellence in quality.”
For more information, visit www.wabco-auto.com.
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