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Tested quality
Certification for Caterpillar Motoren
Guangdong Co. Ltd
Following comprehensive audits
carried out by ten leading ship
classification societies in February
2006, Caterpillar Motoren GmbH &
Co. KG recently obtained certification
for its plant in Guangdong (VR China)
in accordance with ISO 9001:2000,
the works approval, shop approval
and type approval for the MaK M 25
engine. Caterpillar Motoren Guangdong
Co. Ltd., one of Caterpillar’s main
production plants in China, focuses on
assembling marine engines of type
MaK M 25.
“We considerably expanded our
Guangdong plant production capacity,
test stands and quality control
in 2005,” explains Fernando Cantu,
Product Manager Large Medium Speed
Engines, at Caterpillar Motoren. “We’re
thus optimally prepared to meet the
increasing demand for marine engines
of type MaK M 25 in both the local and
international market. With the expansion
of the Guangdong plant, we
have above all succeeded in enabling
Caterpillar Marine Power Systems
to do an even better job of meeting
the requirements of the increasing
number of Asian shipyards and
shipping lines.”
Tradition in quality management
The company in Guangdong was
founded in 1994 by two diesel engine
makers that at that time could already
boast a success story of over 90 years:
the German MaK Motoren GmbH and
Chinese Guangzhou Diesel Engine Factory.
Since 1996, the plant has been
producing the outstanding MaK M
453 C diesel series engines for marine
propulsion systems, gensets and
power stations. Since 2005, Caterpillar
Motoren Guangdong Co. Ltd has
been fully owned by Caterpillar Inc.
and is meanwhile the largest production
plant for medium-speed engines
in southern China.
The Guangdong facility is firmly
integrated into the global production
and quality assurance system of
Caterpillar®; it is guaranteed that the
The MaK M 25 at the test bed
engines produced meet the high quality
standard as known from the other
Caterpillar marine engine plants in
the USA, Germany, Belgium and the
UK. The recent certification by Det
Norske Veritas (DNV) conforming to
ISO 9001:2000 confirms that the procedures
applied, communication
used and handling of production targets
meet the highest international
standards. Moreover, customers benefit
from the successful corporate philosophy
of continuous improvement,
in accordance with which the plant
management and all employees work
day by day. After the annual auditing
was successfully completed in accordance
with ISO 9001:2000 in Kiel and
Quality Management
Rostock in December 2005, all MaK
marine engine plants now operate
in accordance with standard quality
standards.
Approval for plant and
production process
In addition to certification of the
quality management by DNV, representatives
of ten international ship
classification societies have inspected
the process of the engine assembly
and audit procedures, which finally led
to the “works approval” for the Guangdong
plant. This certificate, which represents
a prerequisite for the entire
marine engine business, was issued
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