The gear still bears the key role as an element that composes various machines that have achieved remarkable development now.
We have put our heart into this basic mechanism that has been used for greatly 2,000 years or more.
The base that forms the machine no matter how it is complicated or enlarges is the same.
The posture of our company that has walked as specialist of the gear manufacture is to always watch the starting point, to have a creative spirit, and to ascertain the future.
【2015/4/9】Sogabe's products as Manufacturing brand of Niihama-city
【2014/3/24】Sogabe’s CSR(corporate social responsibility) activity enhanced:
Sogabe Iron Works Co. Ltd. was awarded SQEP(Supplier Quality Excellence Process) - Silver Level certificate by Caterpillar Inc. and received the plaque of the certification on October 28th,2016.
It is a prestigious award showing our excellent quality performance that meet and/or exceed expectations on Caterpillar product.
“SQEP ensures that suppliers implement a quality management system that emphasizes process control, reduction in variation, defect prevention and elimination of waste.
SQEP provides the means for recognizing supplier quality excellence while clearly communicating expectations for a world-class supply base. Recognition level of Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum, reflected in order of increasing difficulty, distinguish outstanding supplier quality performance.
And suppliers are expected to play an integral role in driving a “Zero-Defect” mentality into Caterpillar supply chain management processes and culture.”
We started SQEP project team in December, 2014 and quality improvement activity and the periodic project meeting to follow up the activity have been conducted under the guidance of Caterpillar’s person in charge of SQEP. Owing to the pointed advice by Caterpillar, we were honored to be certified SQEP-Silver Level in September, 2016.
Taking this award as a springboard for aiming further quality improvement and customer satisfaction, we will
make our most efforts to continue to produce world class products for customers in the world.