As of today, PJSC "Arzamas Machine-Building Plant" is an enterprise located in the perimeter of the management of LLC "Military Industrial Company" (Moscow).
Throughout its existence, the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant has become one of the leaders of the country's defense industrial sector, the only one enterprise in Russia producing wheeled armored vehicles, the leading enterprise of the machine-building industry of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Starting its activity with the production of cushioning devices, it has passed all stages of development on the way toward creating the end item – advanced samples of the world arms market.
It was founded in 1972 as the Arzamas Automobile Spare Parts Plant of the Gorky Automobile Manufacturing Association. In 1980, a government decision was made to place a military order at the enterprise. And in the same year, the plant released a completely new product − an army armored vehicle. And in 1981 already produced the first batch of special vehicles.
Recently, the delivery geography of products manufactured by PJSC "AMZ" has significantly expanded. Special-purpose equipment is highly popular among the military of Algeria, Hungary, Indonesia, Sudan, Djibouti, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, etc. Russian armored vehicles manufactured by JSC "AMZ" have "stepped over" the ocean and are conquering the Latin American market (Uruguay, Colombia). The company annually demonstrates its products at the largest international exhibitions of weapons and military equipment, including the international exhibition in Malaysia "Defense Service Asia", the Paris’s "Eurosatory", the South African’s "Africa Aerospace & Defense", the exhibition in the United Arab Emirates "Index" and so on.
Complementary to the supply of military equipment, one of the priority areas of the company's activities is an inextricable connection with corporate consumers for the entire period of the manufactured product. The plant carries out guarantee maintenance of equipment, carries out improvements, repairs and modernization of previously manufactured products. According to the decision of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the organization of maintenance service of military equipment in the troop forces by the manufacturing factory in 2010, a service center was established at the enterprise, whose specialists carry out scheduled maintenance of equipment, remanufacture, training of operation personnel, etc. Since 2010, as part of the implementation of export contracts, a new direction has been mastered at the enterprise — training of foreign specialists.
Annually, experts of the "Military Register" at PJSC "AMZ" carry out inspection check-up of the certified quality management system for conformity with a standards of GOST RV 15.002-2003 and GOST R ISO 9001-2008 standards.
A expressly circumspect personnel policies, competently structured work with personnel, and a complete approach to payment for labour are more necessary than ever in modern conditions, because this is what allows the company to retain valuable talents and attract high-skilled professionals. In this way, the plant has a real inner drive, which makes it possible to look to the future with confidence and make the most ambitious plans.