Knorr Bremse Honors Bendix

Munich,Germany-based Knorr-Bremse Group awarded Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems Huntington Campus their 2014 KB-Truck Knorr Excellence Award. 
 
Each year,KB awards two locations – one in its rail business segment and one in its truck business segment – the Knorr Excellence recognition for outstanding achievement within the Knorr Excellence (KE) business metrics. KB’s truck business segment consists of18 facilities globally.
 
Performance categories included in the KE metrics are:
 
      Business – total sales,sales per employee,return on sales,working capital
      Customer – customer returns,cost of product quality,delivery performance
      People – turnover rate,absenteeism rate
      Society – workplace accidents,energy efficiency
      Supplier – supplier quality,material savings
 
Bendix,the North American leader in the development and manufacture of leading-edge active safety and braking system technologies for commercial vehicles,opened its Huntington location in February 1980.