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Quality management – from inspection to prevention
After the successful restructuring of the Group organization, one of our priorities in 2005 was to extend the Group-wide standards in quality management. In order to further improve the overall quality we provide to our customers over the whole process chain and be able to respond efficiently to problems at an early stage, new areas of focus were established – from prevention in product and process development to systematic analysis of causes.

Quality management system improved
In 2005, we were able to refine the model of the MAHLE business processes even further and gradually optimize the Group-wide standards it defines. Four TOP quality processes have been defined to control the quality management system:

• Defect prevention to avoid potential risks
• Inspection and testing to avoid defects and eliminate defective parts
• Problem solving in case of defective parts
• Continuous improvements to increase the quality of all products and services