Nissan to watch JATCO "more closely" for CVT quality concerns

To send its most senior North American manufacturing and supply chain executive, Bill Krueger, to JATCO

Nissan is sprucing up its oversight of affiliated parts supplier JATCO in the wake of quality and customer satisfaction problems amid launch-related glitches with the continuously variable transmissions (CVTs) supplied by the company, reports Automotive News. Nissan's chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, says his team will be watching JATCO "more closely" to ensure that any new technology introduced by the supplier meets customer satisfaction. "Every time you launch a new CVT, you always have some risks. So we now have a process by which, before we launch any new CVT, they (JATCO) come before the Nissan executive committee to explain all the measures they have taken to make sure there are no surprises," Ghosn was quoted as saying.