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CTOnews.com May 25 news, Japan's third-largest auto parts manufacturer Hitachi Astemo (Hitachi) recently mired in quality inspection fraud scandal. The 22 products produced by the company, including auto parts, motorcycle parts, railway vehicle parts and industrial parts, have quality inspection fraud in 15 domestic and foreign factories.

According to Reuters, fraud can be traced back to 40 years ago. In addition to the problems such as failure to carry out periodic tests and false reporting of test results, improper behaviors such as changing design specifications without customer approval were also found. "We apologize for the great inconvenience and concern caused to our customers and other interested parties due to misconduct," said Bliss Koch, president and chief executive of Hitachi Anstamo.

Previously, on December 22, 2021, Hitachi Anstemer publicly admitted that the company's factories did not inspect or tamper with data and other violations, according to the data released at that time, the illegal products involved 57000 brake parts produced by the Yamanashi factory and about 10 million suspension parts from the Fukushima factory. The violation lasted for 20 years from 2000 to October 2021. The offending products affected 16 manufacturers, including Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Suzuki, Mazda, Subaru and Dafa Industries, and Hitachi Anstmer apologized for the incident. Mr Coles said the violations were due to employees' lack of awareness of the importance of inspections, inadequate monitoring systems and insufficient manpower to carry out tests as required.

▲ source Pexels, irrelevant to pictures and texts, Hitachi Anstemer announced a few days ago that it has conducted a survey of 140 factories around the world and found that the range of affected factories and customers is wider than previously disclosed, and the number of related products related to automobiles, motorcycles, rolling stock, industry and other fields has increased from more than 10 million previously announced to more than 200 million. Some of these products have been misbehaving for about 40 years (from January 1983 to April 2023).

"the main reason for misconduct is basically a lack of compliance understanding and resources, and in some cases, employees put cost and delivery time above quality and compliance," explains Mr Coles. "

The company said it would introduce more testing devices, promote automated testing, and strengthen the authority of quality control departments to ensure product quality. " Although there is misconduct in the company, there is plenty of leeway because the standards set are very strict. Therefore, even if there is counterfeiting, there is no problem with security and performance. After that, the company will further introduce test equipment, promote automatic testing, and strengthen the authority of quality control departments and other measures to ensure product quality. "

After inquiry, CTOnews.com learned that Hitachi Anstemer was formed by the merger of four car retail manufacturers owned by Hitachi and Honda. Among them, Hitachi holds 66.6% of the shares, while Honda Technology Research holds 33.4%. On October 30, 2019, Hitachi and Honda announced the merger of Hitachi's Hitachi Automotive Systems and Honda's Keibin, Showa, and Hitachi Industries into a new company. the main products include electric vehicle transmission, electronic control components, chassis components, electrical systems, engine components, shock absorbers, brakes and steering systems, covering almost all major automotive parts. In March, Hitachi and Honda announced that they would change the shareholding of Hitachi Astromo to 40 per cent each and introduce JIC Capital with a 20 per cent stake. Hitachi Anstemer has become the third largest auto parts supplier in Japan after Denso and Aishin.

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