MK-D Statement of Quality Policy

At Kovács Ltd. we consider quality as a key factor, and wish to realize it in accordance with the ISO 9001, and in the automotive industry with the ISO/TS 16949 requirements. To realize this we wish to introduce and employ the above mentioned requirements at our company.

The main strategic aim of our company is to meet the prevailing requirements with our production technology and the quality of our products. We continuously develop our quality management and production process’ in order to achieve greater efficiency, improve cost-effectiveness, and to satisfy the needs of customers more effectively.

We treat the following areas with significant importance:

• make sure that the quality demands, and the customer demands are well-known and used efficiently within our organisation
• complete and precise fulfilment based on the date of the orders
• zero-defects mentality, the stress is placed on error prevention
• measurement, evaluation, and improvement of process’ efficiency
• provision of effective training and information flow
• establishment of mutually favourable relation with the suppliers
• to include workers and make them interested in the process of development

The leadership of the Kovács Ltd. commits itself to the fulfilment of the directives, and to the provision of the necessary resources.

Environmental Policy:

The main activities of the Kovács Ltd.: metal-working, and drop-forging. Basic technologies: CNC processing, drop-forging, heat treatment. Our company set it out as a goal to continue to operate on by considering the environmental factors during its activities. Environmentally conscious thinking and working are one of the key elements of the company’s philosophy.

The working of the environmental management of the Kovács Ltd. is based upon the norm of the ISO 14001:2004, which is in close relation with our company’s quality management. Our aim is to achieve such an environmental performance that we can be proud of, furthermore, to win the trust of our customers and the people concerned in a widespread population, to become good neighbours, and to contribute to the sustainable development.

In order to achieve our goals:

• We committed ourselves to prevent the pollution of the environment from occuring, and we continuously strive to reduce our emissions.
• We comply with the environmental laws, resolutions, and inner regulations that concern our activity.
• We set out environmental aims and schedules, that are relized in the form of environmental programs, and are continuously monitored.
• During both our activity, and the process’ that takes place in the office, our primary goal is the collection and the delivery of the waste in a selective way or, if possible, the recycling of it.
• During our activity we use the energy and the resources granted in an economical way.
• We evaluate our environmental fulfilment on a regular basis, and by considering the evaluated data we continuously develop our environmental management system.
• We regularly inform our colleagues on the performance and changes that take place in our environmental management system, moreover, we have up-to-date information on the issues.
• We demand that our suppliers act in accordance with their environmental management system’s requirements.
• Our company considers it a highly important issue to assert an attitude towards the protection of the environment, to spread environmentally conscious thinking in the ranks of its colleagues and suppliers, in order to satisfy the needs of the people concerned.

Quality management

The Kovács Ltd. operates a quality management system in its production process’, based upon the ISO/TS 16949:2002. The money invested in the quality of our products clearly displays itself in the level of our control and measurement units. We pay great attention to the designing, organising, and surveying of our work in order to attain high precision for our end-products. The primary object of our company is to meet the demands of the customers on the highest possible level.

Control Devices:

• ZEISS MC850 – coordinate measuring machine
• ZEISS Contura 7/7/6 – coordinate measuring machine
• ZEISS Contura G2 Aktív – coordinate measuring machine
• ZEISS Accura 12/18/10 – coordinate measuring machine
• ZEISS Duramax – coordinate measuring machine
• ZEISS Contourecord 1700 – contourograph
• Twinner T8 – length diameter measuring machine
• MAHR/Perthen CV200 – contourograph
• TIME TR150 – surface roughness tester
• Mitutoyo 192-604 – altimeter
• Több mint 800 TDS meter and gauge
• ZEISS microscope

Material Testing Equipment:

• PALLAS – microscope
• MECATOM T4 – metal cutting circular saw
• MECAPRESS II. – resin – embedding machine
• MECAPOL 320 – beetling bench
• EMCO M1C010 – hardness tester
• EMCO M4U-075 – hardness tester
• KARL DEUTSCH 1090 – ultrasonic flaw detector