UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Volchansk subsidiary developed and adopted a product quality enhancement program, with the goal of achieving zero percentage of faulty items by 2018, the corporation’s press service reports.

One of the steps taken was setting up the so-called ‘quality clubs’ whose task is to elaborate and introduce proposals on how to reduce the number of faulty items through improvements in technological processes and better organization of work and production. Starting from 2013, the plant has been implementing its In-Built Quality Project, that is, a set of technological and organizational measures to prevent production of poor quality goods. The idea is to avoid faults already at the manufacturing stage rather than to intensify ready produce quality control.

‘Our operators rely on the Three Don’ts Principle: Don’t Accept Faulty Items, Don’t Produce Faulty Items, Don’t Transfer Faulty Items. We have fifty-one people working with their personal identification stamps at the moment, and these people are fully responsible for the quality of goods they make,’ the press service says.