Industrial Automation Magazine India

AVX earns Supplier Quality Excellence Award from GM

Published on : Monday 05-10-2020

The award recognises AVX Electronics Tianjin Co Ltd, which supplies GM with proven TransGuard? Automotive Series multilayer varistors.

Fountain Inn (S.C), October 2, 2020 – AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components and interconnect, sensor, control, and antenna solutions, received a 2019 Supplier Quality Excellence Award from General Motors (GM). The award recognises AVX Electronics Tianjin Co. Ltd. for providing outstanding quality performance throughout calendar year 2019, as evidenced by having consistently met or exceeded an extremely stringent set of quality performance criteria and achieved the cross-functional support of the entire GM organisation, whose mission is to design, build, and sell the world's best vehicles with the highest levels of quality and safety on the road.

GM's ability to achieve that mission depends on providing its assembly plants with high-quality, defect-free electronic components, but only a fraction of its suppliers have proven to consistently deliver peak performance — such as zero defects in shipped products and 100% on-time delivery — day in and day out for 365 consecutive days. In 2019, AVX's manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China, which supplies GM with AEC-Q200-qualified TransGuard?? Automotive Series multilayer varistors (MLVs), once again proved to be amongst its top-performing supplier partners. It was also recognised for top-quality performance in 2016 for calendar year 2015.

"We know that maintaining a focus on the details to deliver a defect-free product to our assembly plants consistently is not an easy task," said Rick Demuynck, Executive Director of Supplier Quality & Development, who, along with Chris Mailoux, Director Chassis & Thermal, GM, virtually presented this year's digital awards. "The suppliers that earned this prestigious recognition are a critical part of the team who helps ensure that our customers are delighted with their product purchase, and we thank them for that."

"We are honoured to have once again been recognised as one of GM's top supplier partners and are extremely proud of our Tianjin team for their steadfast commitment to meeting and exceeding an extensive array of rigorous customer and automotive industry product quality and performance standards," said Marianne Berolini, General Manager, Specialty Products at AVX. "Our TransGuard?? Automotive Series multilayer varistors are innovative circuit protection products designed to provide our automotive industry customers with the highest levels of quality, performance, and reliability, and we take great pride in the important role they play in helping GM achieve superlative quality and performance standards."