We use WCM (World Class Manufacturing) for systematical improvement and development of our competitiveness in manufacturing. WCM focuses basically on occupational safety, quality, costs, delivery and environment and aims to reach “zero” in all of these aspects. As of 2017, WCM program has been applied in 217 FCA manufacturing facilities and 370 suppliers’ manufacturing facilities around the world.

We focused on constantly developing the manufacturing standards throughout our WCM journey. After the audits conducted, we celebrated our success as being one of the three factories reaching “Gold Level” in FCA world, and we continued this success through a score of 77 we obtained in 2017. With the contributions of our employees, we continue to reduce occupational accidents and machine malfunctioning, enhance our productivity and external quality indicators during our WCM journey. In 2017, each operator gave 26 suggestions on average and contributed to our studies.

We have been leading our suppliers to apply WCM methodology in addition to our own operations. By the end of 2017, we have been conducting World Class Supplier program with 27 suppliers.

While driving our quality strategies, we ground on Global Quality System of FCA which aims products and services to be provided at high quality norms. Our target is to have products and services that comply with the legal and industrial legislation that are reliable in terms of physical norms and deliver higher performance compared to its peers.

We adopt a large number of management quality and system standards in our manufacturing processes in addition to WCM methodology and strengthen our risk intervention capacity and management quality. We constantly enhance our performance level on management systems and standards we follow through periodical independent external audits, certification and verification studies. We preclude potential risks by monitoring all our processes entirely with WPI (Work Progress Integration) methodology. In addition, we apply IMDS program and ensure control of chemicals and non-use of forbidden raw materials in our supply chain.

The detailed information about World-Class Manufacturing (WCM) Methodology is available on www.tofas.com.tr/en/About/Pages/Policies/WorldClassManufacturing.aspx or on our 2017 Tofaş Annual Report which we publish interactively on ir.tofas.com.tr/en/index.html.