Hitachi Astemo, a joint venture between Hitachi Ltd and Honda Motor Co Ltd, has revealed misconduct in testing and other procedures for components that lasted as long as four decades. The company found that employees had wrongly handled test and other procedures at 11 domestic and four overseas plants, affecting 22 products for 69 customers. The misconduct included reporting periodic test results to customers without running the actual tests and running tests on suspension systems at incorrect temperatures. Hitachi Astemo has worked with customers to redo tests on nearly two dozen affected products and taken measures to improve the robustness of their system. None of the customers involved were paid compensation and all of the costs associated with renewed testing were booked in the previous financial year.
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