Quality:
Gears for Africa has a state of the art quality management system.
Our quality management has been built up systematically over many years, and comprises every aspect of our business. We have an unrelenting quest for excellence and continual improvement.
Our quality management is fully recorded in our quality manual and directs the activities of every operative on our workplace.
A practical testimony to our quality products and services is reflected in our successful passing of every single quality test performed by our clients and tender prospects.
We are currently preparing for ISO 9001:2015 accreditation in compliance with the following standards:
• Customer focus
• Leadership
• People involvement
• Process approach
• System approach to management
• Continual improvement
• Factual approach to decision making
• Mutually beneficial supplier.
Gears for Africa is a BEE compliant enterprise with a Level 2 contribution status.
Gears can be inspected for backlash, pitch, profile, lead, tooth to tooth spacing and composite tolerances.
In-process inspections take place constantly as components are manufactured. Skilled machinists and inspectors document inspections in an environmentally controlled inspection laboratory. A constant temperature and humidity level is held to ensure consistency in all measurements. All instruments are calibrated and certified to maintain the highest degree of accuracy.