Quality assurance guaranteed car tune-up centres to undergo registration
Workshop billboards can display ENERCON name and logo after completion of process.
Under the new system, equipment and services at workshops and tune-up centres will be evaluated during site visits, to ascertain whether they qualify for a registration certificate. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The National Energy Conservation Centre — popularly known as ENERCON — has initiated registration of car tune-up centres that were earlier established under a fuel efficiency project, to ensure quality assurance.
ENERCON Manager Technical Asad Mahmood said around 20 workshops with computerised diagnostic and tune-up facilities across the country were currently undergoing the registration process.
Fifty tune-up centres have been established under the Fuel Efficiency in the Road Transport Sector (FERTS) project — a United Nations Development Programme initiative conducted from 1996 to 2005 in collaboration with the government and ENERCON.
Soft loans provided by the Energy Conservation Fund (ECF) and FERTS’ Revolving Loan Fund (RLF), which received USD$3 million in seed funding from
the Global Environment Facility, has helped over 50 tune-up centres purchase equipment such as engine analysers.
Many workshop owners and 3S dealers who have these facilities wanted to use ENERCON’s name and logo on their billboards, but the absence of certification and a monitoring mechanism made this impossible, said an official.
Under the new system, equipment and services at workshops and tune-up centres will be evaluated during site visits, to ascertain whether they qualify for a registration certificate.
Qualified centres will have permission to display the ENERCON name and logo and call themselves an “ENERCON Computerised Tune-up Centre.”
Mahmood said the registration agreement would be valid for two years, during which ENERCON will routinely monitor the quality of all centres’ facilities through regular reporting and surprise visits.
On March 22, an ECF team headed by ENERCON Managing Director Amjad Nazir visited Toyota Airport Motors Lahore to sign an agreement registering it as the first computerised tune-up centre under the new scheme.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2013.
The National Energy Conservation Centre — popularly known as ENERCON — has initiated registration of car tune-up centres that were earlier established under a fuel efficiency project, to ensure quality assurance.
ENERCON Manager Technical Asad Mahmood said around 20 workshops with computerised diagnostic and tune-up facilities across the country were currently undergoing the registration process.
Fifty tune-up centres have been established under the Fuel Efficiency in the Road Transport Sector (FERTS) project — a United Nations Development Programme initiative conducted from 1996 to 2005 in collaboration with the government and ENERCON.
Soft loans provided by the Energy Conservation Fund (ECF) and FERTS’ Revolving Loan Fund (RLF), which received USD$3 million in seed funding from
the Global Environment Facility, has helped over 50 tune-up centres purchase equipment such as engine analysers.
Many workshop owners and 3S dealers who have these facilities wanted to use ENERCON’s name and logo on their billboards, but the absence of certification and a monitoring mechanism made this impossible, said an official.
Under the new system, equipment and services at workshops and tune-up centres will be evaluated during site visits, to ascertain whether they qualify for a registration certificate.
Qualified centres will have permission to display the ENERCON name and logo and call themselves an “ENERCON Computerised Tune-up Centre.”
Mahmood said the registration agreement would be valid for two years, during which ENERCON will routinely monitor the quality of all centres’ facilities through regular reporting and surprise visits.
On March 22, an ECF team headed by ENERCON Managing Director Amjad Nazir visited Toyota Airport Motors Lahore to sign an agreement registering it as the first computerised tune-up centre under the new scheme.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2013.