AGC Automotive Europe recently celebrated World Quality Day at all European production sites and head office on 14 November. The day is designed to recognise the contributions of quality professionals across the globe. It represented an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the AGC team and organisation. More than 3500 staff members attended the event in no fewer than 12 locations.

A two hour timeslot, synchronised throughout Europe, from the UK to Russia, up to Turkey and Morocco, was fixed to stop activities and gather all employees around the same objective: Be part of the World Quality Day. A ‘Eurovision-type’ communication was organised, sharing quotes and live interviews of each local manager with the other sites.

The event was preceded by a ‘quality coffee morning’, during which all participants could build interesting relationships with colleagues. After a common set of slides about AGC Automotive Europe quality strategy and values, testimonials of customers about the key role and importance of quality were broadcasted to all participants. Each production site gave a ‘quality award’ to a special project that contributed to product, process or service improvement. The central offices rewarded the plant with the best performance. The accompanying image shows the World Quality Day event at AGC Automotive Europe headquarters in Belgium.

According to an AGC press statement, this event was key for AGC Automotive Europe because even if every individual in the company knows how much quality matters as a key pillar of the company’s foundations, sharing this event as one team, one voice, one determination, reinforced all links necessary to make it happen. www.agc-automotive.com