WABCO-TVS wins Quality Award from Tata Motors

WABCO Holdings Inc. has announced that WABCO-TVS (India) Ltd. has won the ‘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 the fourth largest truck manufacturer. Tata Motors has now increased its worldwide sales of commercial vehicles by 46 per cent 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 in India.

The award received by Mr. T. Rajagopalan, General Manager (Original Equipment Sales), WABCO-TVS, from Mr. S.B. Borwankar, Plant Head, Tata Motors, Jamshedpur Plant, at the Vendor Awards Ceremony 2008 held in Jamshedpur, focuses on the three-year performance of the company.

“As a leading global manufacturer of commercial vehicles, we are committed to setting and sustaining the industry’s highest requirements for quality and reliability,” said Mr. 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”, said Mr. 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.”

As reported earlier, WABCO-TVS has expanded its global capabilities in India by opening a new manufacturing facility in Jamshedpur and another one in Mahindra World City, near Chennai, where the company owns its third factory in India.

WABCO Vehicle Control Systems is one of the world’s leading providers of electronic braking, stability, suspension and transmission automation systems for heavy duty commercial vehicles. Its customers include the world’s leading commercial truck, trailer and bus manufacturers.

Founded in the US in 1869 as Westinghouse Air Brake Company, WABCO was acquired by American Standard in 1968 and spun off in 2007. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, WABCO employs more than 7,700 people in 31 countries worldwide. In 2007, its total sales were $2.4 billion.