Life at Teknorot
Teknorot is the leading company in its sector by having 1.900 employees who work in Duzce factory. Teknorot consider their employees as ‘‘partners’’, and this attitude makes Teknorot ‘‘Always Ahead’’ in employee value. Teknorot provides benefits such as cafe, billiard, table tennis, game arcade, library, internet, health care, and free dress day to all employees. Teknorot has a good reputation about having 1.900+ employees in Duzce factory, and 2.300+ employees in all production and distribution facilities in 4 countries in 4 continents. Teknorot will continue to care about its employees…
Working Days and Hours
The White Collar staff’s working days are Monday to Friday (5 days), working hours are from 08:00 to 18:00 on weekdays, 45 hours per week.
The Blue Collar staff’s working days are set at 45 hours per week over 7 hours a day, Monday to Saturday (6 days).
Meal
Teknorot serves one meal in a day, Teknorot also serves one more meal in extra shifts.
Company’s Cafe
Apart from normal meals, our Café is open to all our employees on the terrace floor to meet social needs such as snacks, billiards, table tennis and internet.
Library and Internet
Employees can enjoy daily newspapers in the library and internet lounge, which are located in quiet room during breaks.
Health care
With 24-hour infirmary service, solutions are provided for employees who have faced with health problems.
Private health insurance
Private health insurance is provided to employees at certain levels without waiting for the trial period.
Free Dress Day
In order to create a more positive and comfortable environment for employees, Friday was designated as Casual Day.
Education and Improvement
Teknorot Automotive believes in the principle of “Humanitarian investment has the highest return’’. Our training objective is to provide all our employees with high standards of development and training and to make them a major contributor to the success of the company.
We are trying to contribute to the contemporary human resource management by aiming to create a high performance employee culture. As a result of continous development and changes in competitive environment and technology, in order to maintain and improve our position, we raise awareness of our employees about personal growth with the vocational and personal development trainings. You can see the details of the training activities we provide to improve our employees’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, performance, motivation, and spread our company culture below.
Orientation Training:
New employee begins a training program with general information about the company.
Internal and External Education:
Training programs that are organized outside the company or within the company to improve the knowledge and skills of the staff o as required.
Our Internal Trainings; Technical Skills Trainings, Quality Systems Trainings, Personal Development Trainings and Occupational Health and Work Safety Trainings.
Our External Trainings; At the end of the year, a training budget is calculated according to the demands and needs of our managers to be used in the following year. Addition, unplanned trainings can also be provided to all of our employees in respect of changes in priorities and new requirements, throughout the year.
On-the-job trainings:
These trainings are specified according to the duties of our employees and given on-the-job in order to provide technical information for evaluating customer complaints and process errors.
Vocational and Technical Trainings:
Skills and harmonization trainings / courses mentioned in the Vocational and Technical Education Law numbered 3308.
Motivation Activities
Employee satisfaction survey, Recognition questionnaire, etc. are obtained as a result of the motivation action plan is prepared sports, cultural and social activities are organized.
- Football Tournament
- Employee satisfaction survey application
- Marriage and birth aid
- Supplies during the month of Ramadan,
- New Year gifts at the beginning of the year
- Company meal organizations
- Family Picnic Organizations
- Advice System
The purpose of this procedure is, to support CIP (Continuous Improvement Process) thinking and behaviour style, to ensure the continuity of improvement proposals, to prioritize group suggestions, to increase motivation for practising ideas, to realize values in a shorter and simpler way, and also to encourage our employees to catch up with the existing potentials and improve them in small steps within Teknorot.
Proposals made by employees are regularly evaluated and rewarded; to increase motivation among employees, to encourage teamwork and co-operation and to ensure that they are recognized and appreciated.
Wage Management
In Teknorot, the wage management system is based on a fair and competitive policy. The wage policy is reviewed annually, taking sector-based research and inter-company balances into account.
The recruitment fee is the outcome of the evaluation required by the position and based on the employee’s job responsibilities, training and work experience.
Selection and Placement
The candidates who apply to Teknorot Automotive are based on the basic condition that their knowledge and skills are compatible with the position. Candidates are assessed by considering their education level, knowledge, skills, and experience. You can use kariyer.net to apply to Teknorot Automotive.
Orientation and Starting to work
The new employees start their training activities with the “Orientation Program”, which allows for quick and easy adaptation to the company. The worker is taken to the orientation program, which varies depending on the position.
Internship
Internship opportunities are provided to university and vocational school students within certain quotas.
Human Resources Policy
Teknorot with its increasing success keeps always aiming “customer satisfaction” principle in Human Resources. We believe that our employees are the most important part of our success and high qualified production ever.
We set up our human resources strategy where our employees can be more creative, self-improved and can share common targets for common successes. Basic policy of our human resources is to see our employees improving themselves and gaining experience while the company is approaching its targets in every field. Human resources department aims also to increase our employees’ happiness and efficiency to provide permanency of a successful future.
Human Resources Strategy
Teknorot’s goal is to be the company that every employees proud of and every potential employees work in.
Our Values :
- Affection
- Win to Win Approach
- To be open to change
- Being customer-focused
- Be Innovative
- Focusing on Results
- Value Employees
- Participation and Sharing
- Social Responsibility
- Reliability
- Transparency Sensitivity
- To be fair
- Love and Respect
- Respect for the environment
Our Quality Policy
As Europe’s leading manufacturer, Teknorot operates in 18 different product groups, including ball joints, control arms with ball joints, tie rods, steering link assemblies, tie rod ends, control arms without ball joints, control arm bushings, rubber components, stabilizer links and stabilizer link bushings, repair kits, Z-links, Z-link kits, pressed steel control arms, and aluminum and steel forged ball-joint arms.
Adopting an advanced technology approach, Teknorot is Europe’s largest aftermarket manufacturer of suspension and steering components for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. Founded in 1992 with 100% domestic capital, Teknorot began its journey in the industry and today continues its manufacturing operations in the Düzce Organized Industrial Zone with an extensive machinery park. Together with its global facilities, the company provides services through a wide production area and a comprehensive organizational structure. In line with the growth and increasing demand of the aftermarket, our Düzce facility—equipped with state-of-the-art technology—began operating at full capacity in 2008.
Never compromising on quality and placing customer satisfaction at the forefront, Teknorot achieves maximum equipment standards and quality across all product groups through its advanced technology philosophy.
With the goal of continuing to manufacture the most reliable, durable, and highest-quality product groups in its field, Teknorot maintains its leading position in the market.
The Düzce production facilities represent not only advanced technology but also new production methods and a high-quality manufacturing approach for Teknorot.
A global brand in quality: Teknorot
As one of the most reliable companies in its field, Teknorot maintains its leadership and exemplary position through its core principles. The company continuously expands its product range and offers its valued customers internationally standardized products—manufactured in-house and proven through quality, durability, and lifetime tests—including tie rod ends, tie rods, aluminum and steel forged ball-joint arms, pressed steel control arms, Z-links, and bushing product groups.
Our Quality Policy
- To provide our customers with high-quality products that meet their expectations,
- To carry out all activities from order receipt to delivery with customer satisfaction as the primary focus,
- To ensure management support and continuous involvement,
- To align all employees with company objectives through a quality-driven philosophy, fostering teamwork while developing their knowledge, skills, and competencies, and encouraging innovative and creative approaches,
- To create an efficient, productive, and lean working environment through continuous improvement in order to minimize natural resource consumption and losses across all activities,
- To establish mutually beneficial, development-oriented relationships with our suppliers, recognizing that supplier development directly contributes to company growth,
- To comply with all applicable legal and other requirements in order to provide a healthy, safe, and human- and environment-respectful working environment, prioritizing the elimination and reduction of risks in our activities and services,
- To support activities and practices that contribute to the improvement of societal welfare within the scope of our resources, in line with our social responsibility principles.
We commit to continuous improvement of our quality management systems in line with the principles stated above, and to complying with all applicable laws, regulations, and other requirements across all our processes.
Our Energy Policy
TEKNOROT OTOMOTİV A.Ş. operates in the automotive spare parts sector. TEKNOROT management is committed to maintaining and strengthening the company’s competitiveness, profitability, legal compliance, and energy efficiency, and to ensuring the effective implementation of sustainability principles.
In line with our Energy Policy, we commit to:
- Providing a framework for the establishment and review of energy objectives and targets; ensuring access to information, resources, and support necessary to achieve these objectives; and regularly reviewing and updating them,
- Continuously improving and documenting our Energy Management System and energy performance in accordance with the purpose and scale of our organization; communicating it to all employees; reviewing it; and ensuring it remains up to date,
- Monitoring and complying with all applicable laws, regulations, and other requirements related to energy,
- Using appropriate resources and technologies to keep energy consumption under control,
- Reducing energy consumption; implementing continuous improvement initiatives related to energy efficiency; applying these initiatives and monitoring their results,
- Using energy-efficient products, procuring services that support energy efficiency, and prioritizing energy efficiency in design activities in order to improve energy performance,
- Contributing to raising awareness of energy efficiency not only through training our employees, but also by informing our suppliers, subcontractors, and visitors.
General Manager
Cevat ASLAN
Laboratories and Tests
Teknorot have made important investments until today and still carries on investing to measurement, control and test equipments in order to provide the safety and functional convenience continuity of its products. Teknorot, an organization with extensive laboratory facilities in Europe in its industry, has 6 different specialised laboratories according to the product groups and processes:
- Durability Test Laboratory,
- Calibration&Metrology Laboratory,
- Material – Metallography Laboratory,
- Sheet Metal Wishbone Laboratory,
- Cataphoresis Coating Laboratory,
- Bush Product Group Laboratory
TEST Equipments List
A- Metrological Tests / Equipments
- CMM – 2 pcs
- Surface Rougness Test Equipments – 3 pcs
- Profile Spotlight,
- Form Scanning Equipment,
B- Metallographic Tests / Equipments
- Welding Penetration Equipment,
- Spectrometer, (with 19 element capacity)
- Optical Microscope, (1000X)
- Hardness Test Equipments (HRC- HB- Shore –A)
- Tension Test Equipments (2 pcs 10 ton, 2 pcs 5 ton, 1 pc 3 ton, 1 pcs 500 kgf)
- Salt Spray Test Cabinet
C- Chataphoresis Process Tests – Equipments
- Coating Thickness Test Equipments,
- Impact Test Equipment,
- Cross Cut Test Equipment,
- Automatic PH Meter Measurement Equipment
D- Functional Convenience Tests – Equipments
- Rotational Torque Equipments and Unit,
- Oscillation Torque Equipments and Unit,
- Rotational Torque Measurement On Load,
- Clearance Tests,
- Dust Cover / Cap Leakage Tests Equipment
E- Durability Tests – Equipments
- 3 Axis Wishbone Test, (10 Hz / Capable to use the road data)
- 1 Axis Wishbone Test, (10 Hz / Capable to use the road data)
- 3 Axis Bush Durability Test, (10 Hz /-40 °C and +150 °C)
- 3 Axis Ball Joint Durability Test, (1 Hz /-40 °C )
- 3 Axis Tie Rod End Test, (1 Hz /-40 °C )
- 1 Axis Link Stabilizer Durability Test (10 Hz)
Analyses and Tests
- Quality Laboratories equal to OEM standards
- The latest technology, special design test equipments
- Fully automated and computer-controlled system
- Chemical analysis
- Hardness control
- Microstructural analysis
- Corrosion test
- Rotating and oscillating torque control
- Durability test
- 3-axis wishbone endurance test: Wishbones are subjected to similar road condition tests in three axis. Bumps and potholes, left and right turns, gas and brake commands can be installed on the system. All results can be compared with the results of the original product.
- Ball pin production with optical system using 100% dimensional inspection and Eddy current crack control: the size of the entire body and for each ball pin crack control can be done and all these checks can be completed in just 7 seconds.
- Go and no go gauge controls for wishbones and track control arms: The quicker and most precise dimensional measurement control.
Certifications
Innovation and Technology
As Teknorot, we strongly believe that technological innovations in products and product manufacturing processes in automotive suspension parts sector is the key factor for the sustainability and competitive identity of our company. Hence, Teknorot invests heavily on R&D operations to improve its productivity and intellectual competitiveness.
Improving in manufacturing technology through innovation is the primary objective of Teknorot. In line with this objective, Teknorot applies new production methods to achieve high efficiency in business processes. In this regard, in 2011 Teknorot became the first steering and suspension parts manufacturer that received “R&D Center” status by Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology. A number of special projects developed by Teknorot in collaboration with Turkish national universities and TUBİTAK continue to set Teknorot apart from its competitors in manufacturing productivity. This center has proved itself by obtaining several patents by the research on new materials and components of steering and suspension parts production and also by applying those patents on new Teknorot products.
All the research is conducted by a team of experts who knows the important responsibility of manufacturing “safety part” for automobiles, and target to achieve highest safety and quality standards. Teknorot is one of the two manufacturers accredited as “OE Equivalent” by the Turkish Government in terms of design, development and manufacturing of steering and suspension components.
R&D Center
Teknorot Otomotiv has been awarded with the title “R&D Center” by Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology in accordance with the law 5746 at April 2011.
There are more than 80 qualified employees in our R&D Center and most of them are engineers with a strong undergraduate, postgraduate and/or doctorate background. In addition to product development, process development, product improvement, technology development and test validation method development functions; customer technical support services are also provided.
Used Tools
In order to perform these activities, today’s best and most recent softwares and hardwares are used.
CES Selector software is used for the Material Properties Database and is verified with the Spectral Tester and Instron Universal test device in R&D Laboratories.
Siemens NX Unigraphics is used for CAD design with 3D solid and surface modeling.
Within the scope of computer aided engineering, simulation and analysis studies are carried out with Ansys Workbench, nCode Design Life, Autoform and Simufact.
The best 3D CMM, laser scanning and life test devices are used for measurement and verification.
IFS and TeamCenter are used for information and data management.
New Product Development
The quality products are provided to the aftermarket referring to the demands from the customers and Sales / Marketing Department, the projects are managed in accordance with the TS 16949 quality management standard.
During the process of new item development; benchmark studies, literature and patent research, design analysis and simulations, process analysis and verification tests are conducted. Technological innovations, patents and utility models used in original parts of vehicles are closely being followed in order to increase our ability to develop original and/or better quality products constantly.
Process Development
R&D Center is also responsible for the design of new products’ development processes and adaptations of innovations in these processes.
Additionally, production optimization projects are carried out under the leadership of our R&D Center by using lean manufacturing techniques to increase productivity.
Product Improvement
As a result of evaluating product-based performance improvement requests from customers and end users, necessary improvements are planned and carried out for product design and processes.
In addition to these demands, the performances of the products are followed closely and further improvement studies are carried out in order to ensure full customer satisfaction with superior quality.
Technology Development
In the process of technology development, our main goal is to put Teknorot Otomotiv’s brand value always to the first place by ensuring our products are adapted to today’s newest technologies by improving production processes continuously.
Advanced Engineering Studies
We design our products virtually in Siemens NX 3D program before the prototype stage and virtual analysis and simulation studies are carried out in order to increase efficiency and minimize losses in product development and implementation stages. Hence our products are marketed earlier and they stand out on the market. We use the best analysis softwares available in the world such as Ansys, Autoform and Simufact to test our products.
Our R&D Center is increasing its annual new product development capacity continuously and has achieved a strong and reliable position both in the European market and also in new markets we created by investing.
With a professional team under project management, TUBITAK – TEYDEB projects and process improvements are carried out in cooperation with many different universities and research institutions.
Receiving certificates for equivalent parts on the aftermarket and European Union projects such as HORIZON 2020 are being carried out within the scope of international cooperation frameworks.
Parts developed with projects, patents and utility model studies regarding to technology and processes are important activities carried out by our R&D Center as well.
