KAMAZ’s Leave is Over
Today all plants and production units of KAMAZ started working again after the personnel’s monthly corporative paid leave.
After the summer holiday, KAMAZ’s employees will have to work hard. Only in September, they will have to produce and deliver 3582 vehicle sets to customers, corporate clients, dealers, special equipment manufacturers and assembly enterprises abroad. It should be recalled that KAMAZ produced 20278 vehicle sets for seven months of work before the corporative vacation.
KAMAZ’s sales, leasing, production scheduling and preproduction departments didn’t stop working in August. Units engaged in repairs of process equipment and maintenance of production facilities worked in August as well. The monthly recess enabled them to maintain and modernize several large manufacturing entities during their process cycle, as well as to prepare production for winter.
Special attention was paid to preparation for the launch of the Mayak (Beacon) project developed jointly with Daimler, one of the world’s leading truck producers and KAMAZ’s strategic partner. This system of organization and management of production processes is implemented in accordance with the agreement signed by KAMAZ and its German partner. The introduced changes concern first of all the vehicle assembly production, and they will enable to increase vehicle output volumes on one line of the assembly conveyor to 48 thousand units a year by double-shift operation. The second line of the mother gathering conveyor will be free for assembly of modernized vehicles and production of a new model line.
In August, the workers continued construction-and-assembling operations required to launch Mayak. Offices for the company’s LEAN-trainers and areas for information stands were prepared at the Automobile
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Russia’s Best Drivers
The team of OJSC KAMAZ’s Logistics Center gained a signal victory at the Open All-Russian Linehaul Train Drivers’ Competition ASMAP-Profi-2010 and the 3rd competition for the Cup of Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny 2010 devoted to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Tatarstan.
In October 2003, the managers of the Association of International Road Carriers of Russia (ASMAP) decided to organize the First All-Russian Linehaul Train Drivers’ Competition ASMAP-Profi. The competition has been annually held since then. During a year, preliminary rounds of the competition are held in all Russian federal districts where drivers of the best transport companies, the members of the Association, compete. The umpires of the Automobile Association of Russia referee this competition.
The team of OJSC KAMAZ’s Logistics Center which participated in the competition for the first time took first place among the competitors and won the Cup of Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny in an uncompromising struggle. Ilnur Idiatullin was in the lead in an individual trial for the competition, and the second step of the podium was taken by another KAMAZ worker – Ivan Petrov.
In experts’ opinion, participating and especially gaining a victory in the competition, the Russian companies can raise their competitive capacity and get obvious advantages in a struggle on the international market of transportation services.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
KAMAZ’s Records in Ukraine
KAMAZ became the absolute sales leader on the Ukrainian market in its class of trucks.
AUTO-Consulting Information and Analytical Group informs that the company took 54.9% in the segment of trucks with GVW of over 16 tonnes, according to the results for a period from the beginning of 2010. This is the company’s best result for all years of its work from the day when the country declared its independency. Over a year, KAMAZ’s share has grown by 24.6%.
A KAMAZ-45143 agricultural dump truck became the leader in the truck sales rating; its share in sales forms 41.5%. Due to the predicted development of Ukraine’s agriculture, this model is in great demand this year. The country’s landowners not without reason believe that the KAMAZ-45143 is not inferior to the world’s best analogues in all respects, and KAMAZ’s wide network of service centers in the country and accessibility of spare parts make this model even more popular.
KAMAZ has considerably strengthened its positions selling trucks with 8-16 t GVW as well, having increased its share by 7.7% – to 39.3% – for a year.
KAMAZ renewed its previous record in the overall truck sales rating (all classes of total weight and payload) too, having achieved 18.1%.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010