General Cab
One company, many solutions for automotive market
Established in 1982, since its foundation General Cab S.r.l. has been an independent italian company working in the automotive market in EMEA and NAFTA countries. The wide range of products can satisfy any need. At the same time, General Cab is able te develop customized products, compliant to specific customer’s requests and guaranteeing, during the whole development cycle, excellent quality standards from design to product testing and from industrialization to mass production.
Milestones of General Cab growth
Start of activity
manufacturing of harnesses for automotive applications
Brushcards
Manufacturing of brushcards
Electric motors
Start of assembly of electric motors for cooling fans
Injection Plastic Dept.
Implementation of plastic injection processes
New plant - Tunisia
Start of Operations in Tunisia
Internal electrical development
Start of Electrical motor development
Acquisition of Semar
Acquisition of brushcard manufacturer
EU Sales operations
Opening of Sales / Marketing network in Europe
USA Sales Office
Start of operations in USA
Italian plant
Extension of Italian plant
Brushless motors
SOP automated overmolding of stators (Brushless motors)
Turnover
Airflow turnover over 10 MLN€
General Cab Wordwide
SALES DISTRIBUTION & ENGINEERING CENTER - USA
Quality and Environment
To meet customer expectations in terms of QUALITY, COST and DELIVERY General Cab complies with international standards and is ISO 9001:2015, IATF 16949:2016 certified.
General cab actively pursues the continuous improvement of its processes, with the focus of a full and deep fulfillment of Customer Specific Requirements.
General Cab has a strong commitment to the environment. We do this through an environmental culture, working to the continuous improvement of the environmental performance of our products and production processes, achieving ISO 14001 certification in 2020.
Processes
Ventilation
- Armature Manufacturing and Balancing and Electrical Testing
- Overmolding plastics
- Electric welding
- Tin soldering
- Ultrasonic welding
- Tool shop
- Motor engineering and production
- Assembling electromechanical components
- Crimping harnesses
- Testing the electro-mechanical functionality
Mechatronic
- Plastic Injection Moulding
- Injection Overmoulding
- Electrical and electronic component assembly
- Electro-mechanical Tests
- Resistance welding
- Ultrasonic welding
- Wave Tin soldering
- Camera vision quality control
- Crimping of harnesses
Research and Development
Internal product development
- Codesign with Customer, for which General Cab develops assembly and testing processes.
- General Cab design, for which the full cycle from concept to production is directly managed by General Cab. Design abilities apply to all and each single element of the brushcard.
All products are validated by General Cab according the APQP methodology.
Internal product development
- Climatic chambers
- Vibrations test bench
- Vibration tests combined with thermal cycling
- Life endurance test
- Motor torque bench
- Airflow test bench
- Semianechoic chamber
- Motor engineering and production
- Water and salt spray chamber
- Oven test chamber
