Manufacturing Matters Blog

The UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) marking requires conformity with applicable UK regulations, which replaced the EU's CE mark in Great Britain following Brexit. This will have an impact on many products sold in the UK.

China's "Made in China 2025" directive is ramping up pressure on many multinational corporations - especially those with a large revenue footprint. This also means that many products sold into China will face challenges.

In manufacturing, tolerance analysis is a crucial step during the design and development process. It’s also critical during the hardware fit and performance troubleshooting phase. It’s a valuable tool to realize design intent and high-quality...

“If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.” -- Abraham Maslow

What Is a Cleanroom?

Technology used to connect people virtually has exploded over the years and the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated that exponentially. Many companies had been hesitant to adopt virtual practices in the past, not seeing the benefit and preferred to do...

Softworks Development Corporation: The start of our journey. Every company has a story, and GMI is no different. Here is an overview of the path that brought us to become the world class outsourced assembly and test company we are today.

DfM: A Simple Solution. This particular product is extremely complex assembly work with cable routing and panel termination that takes place close to the cabinet bottom. This part of the assembly process alone takes multiple days of work which...

About 90% of the worlds global trade is transported by ship, so when the worldwide pandemic, Covid-19 struck in the beginning of 2020, the continuous manufacturing flow of raw materials, parts, and consumer goods was put to a temporary stand still.

Raw material, component and transit cost increases cause dramatic price spike. Memos announcing price increases have been arriving regularly from many of our component and materials suppliers, and at a historic cadence.

Our motto is “Manufacturing What Matters”. It sounds meaningful to me. But what does it mean for you?Manufacturing what matters to me means to manufacture assemblies and turnkey products that are complex and critical to the end...