Under our policy of “manufacturing products based on quality”, Nihon Plast has set itself the goal of becoming No.1 in customer quality evaluations. With this in mind, our company has established unified quality standards, systems and structures at all of its bases around the world in order to achieve “0 defects”.
At Nihon Plast, we are expanding implementation of our QA (Quality Assurance) certification line, which evaluates and suggests improvements based on our own evaluation standards system, in order to improve the quality assurance level at each stage of receiving a product from the previous step in the process, manufacturing it as part of the process, and sending it on to the next step in the process. Corporate commendations are awarded to lines that have passed certification and additional commendations are awarded for the first, second, and third year of maintaining certification standards, all of which generates increased motivation within acquisition and maintenance operations.
NPGS (Nihon Plast Global Standards) are our company’s specific standards for equipment specifications, manufacturing methods, safety, and other aspects of business that we use across all company locations around the world when producing safety components such as steering wheels and airbags. These were established to ensure that quality assurance and safety are consistently attained and have been embraced by local members of our team worldwide. Recently, these standards have become more and more common not only for work with safety components but also for other components and manufacturing methods.
Through summarizing our quality assurance and quality control rules into approximately 200 items for evaluation, examining them both systematically and in terms of actual output, and correcting any problems discovered, Nihon Plast is able to evaluate and improve the overall setup and practical day-to-day operations at both domestic and overseas production sites, leading to consistency and improvement in quality assurance levels. Members of our team who have acquired certain skills through training and OJT are able to conduct appropriate and effective evaluations that match the unified standards and levels that are expected.
Nihon Plast products are encountered by many end users via our client car manufacturers. Information obtained from manufacturers on usage and unmet requirements helps us to understand market demands, which are reflected in our internal design standards and experimental specifications, as well as manufacturing design and evaluations. We make use of information from a wide spectrum of end users to guide product development, endeavoring to implement new plans and assure quality that improves the user’s experience with our products.
