«Russian Register» Has Assessed the Quality Management System

Within 1- 5 December, 2003 the Committee of the «Russian Register» Certification Body has been assessing Quality Management System of «KAMAZ» Inc. and its compliance to ISO-9001 International Standard version 2000, and to GOST P ISO-9001 National Standard version 2001.

The Committee has inspected functioning of the Quality Management System (QMS) at all the Company divisions, which directly impact product quality. Inspection results were found to be positive and confirmed that QMS of «KAMAZ» Inc. meets all the requirements of the above mentioned standards. It was specially emphasized that the System’s concept and documentation have been developed at a high scientific and technological level.

However, there has been revealed some noncompliance with the Company’s standards and poor introduction of a through process approach at all levels (i.e. from a plant to a team of workers). The inspectors have also pointed out the need to improve management processes of the Quality Management System.

Upon elimination of the drawbacks (by the end of January 2004) «KAMAZ» Inc. will be granted with the requested certificates confirming that its Quality Management System meets ISO 9000 standards recognized both in Russian and overseas. These certificates are needed while signing contracts on truck delivery and confirm that «KAMAZ» Inc. is capable to manufacture products of required quality. But the main importance of the certification is that it stimulates improvement and efficiency of the management system.

Rating Goes Up

Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of KAMAZ Inc., has been included into the list of the best 1,000 most professional top managers in Russia (in "A" Group) made by the Association of the Russian Managers and the «Commersant» Publishing House.

Ilshat Fardiev, the Head of «TatEnergo» and Radik Ilyasov, Director General of «NizhnekamskShina» were also included into that list. Another top manager of «KAMAZ» Inc’ — Vassil Kayumov, Director General of «Small Passenger Car Plant» OJSC — was also among the best (in "C" Group). High rating of top management of the Company is just another confirmation of the fact that only high-class experts work at «KAMAZ» Inc.

KAMAZ-4326

On December 10, the delegation from the Kingdom of Bahrain arrived to the Assembly Plant of «KAMAZ» Inc in Naberezhnye Chelny for acceptance of 40 KAMAZ-4326 trucks that have been assembled by order. The first 12 trucks out of 40 assembled will be run tested. It’s quite possible, that upon visit results the volume of order might be increased.