One of the cardinal points of Brovedani’s business commitment is the engineering of quality; that is, meeting absolute standards to ensure that the Group plays a specialized role on the international scene.

Two basic techniques are used to evaluate quality:

•  A system based on the number of workpieces discarded, as measured in parts per million (ppm);
•  An approach based on an analysis of the problems reported by customers, which are weighted according to their seriousness.

At present, out of the 150,000,000 components produced per year (2006), the Group boasts a discard rate of around 4 ppm (parts per million).

Aiding in the achievement of these results are the high standards it sets in its checks and preventive analyses, particularly for the automotive industry. This involves almost weekly inspection visits by both direct customers and end customers (OEM) to verify and/or plan procedures which will lead to continuous improvements in the quality and productivity of processes.

In this regard, innovations have also been made in measurement methods and their automation, in order to ensure that the end customer enjoys Zero Defects.

Of the many results obtained, worth special mention are the following:

•  millions of components are supplied in size classes of 2 or 3 microns, as sorted by instruments developed by the company;
• controls are made with automatic visual instruments that detect appearance defects on the components.