The National Competitiveness Council (CNC) and the Government’s Norms and Quality Agency (DIGENOR), will implement a pilot program that will introduce the culture of quality control in productive networks and among business leaders in small and medium-size companies, through training and implementation of quality systems in companies as well as selected clusters.

The announcement was made by Rafael Capellán, technical project coordinator of the CNC, who said this program is important because there is a “need to implement management systems based on the quality that can guarantee products and services provided by companies, whether small or large producers, as well as high productivity and confidence in the provider as a way of increasing the competitiveness of this business sector of the country.”

Capellán said he will be training 30 consultants and auditors of quality systems, technical assistants to companies and clusters in such areas as auditing and pre-certification of businesses. These jobs will have a total cost of $95,050 dollars, of which the Competitiveness Fund, FONDEC, will put up 81%, that is $77,250 dollars.

The project is being done within the framework of the competitiveness program of Pymes of the National Plan of Systemic Competitiveness which seeks to promote national economic growth through strengthening these types of companies with the goal of increasing their competitiveness and consolidating them as one of the pillars of national industry, catalysts of production and generators of well paid employment.