Baolong recently won the “2024 GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award”. This is the 6th time that the company's exhaust pipes won this award, and the first time that its TPMS (tire pressure monitoring systems) won this award.
As a leader in the global automobile manufacturing industry, General Motors has always been known for its strict management of the supply chain system, and the “GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award” can be regarded as the "quality benchmark" of the auto components industry. The award’s assessment committee are composed of senior experts from GM core departments such as global sourcing, quality engineering, and logistics management. And a comprehensive quantitative evaluation was carried out from 12 dimensions, including product quality stability, logistics delivery efficiency, management system maturity, supply chain collaboration ability, company operational healthiness, comprehensive cost control level, new project development ability, and global supply scale. With the evaluation standard being dynamically elevated yearly according to the development trend of the industry and the requirements of quality control, this award is the "touchstone" to measure the suppliers’ full value chain management level.
In 2024, the exhaust pipes and TPMS supplied by Baolong to GM achieved excellent quality performance of 0PPM (defect rate per million pieces), which attributes to the company’s continuous investment in intelligent manufacturing over the years - the company has built a full-process digital management system covering development & design, process planning, manufacturing, and quality inspection, and has realized the traceability and control of the whole product quality lifecycle through AI visual inspection, online real-time data collection and analysis, etc.
Baolong has always taken "zero defect" as the ultimate goal of quality control, and has formed a unique quality management system by introducing lean production concept, building global R&D centers, and establishing a supplier collaborative innovation platform. The development strategy of “technology-driven, and quality-first” has made the company a leader in the fields of lightweight design of exhaust pipes and integrated solution of intelligent tire pressure monitoring systems.
In future, Baolong will increase its layout in the field of automotive core components, and contribute “Chinese wisdom” to the transformation and upgrading of the global automotive industry with excellent quality and innovation capabilities through digital factory upgrading, green manufacturing process application, and global supply chain collaboration, so that more people can benefit from the development of automotive technology.
