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.

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Milestones of General Cab growth

Start of activity

manufacturing of harnesses for automotive applications

1982

Brushcards

Manufacturing of brushcards

1988

Electric motors

Start of assembly of electric motors for cooling fans

1994

Injection Plastic Dept.

Implementation of plastic injection processes

1994

New plant - Tunisia

Start of Operations in Tunisia

2000

Internal electrical development

Start of Electrical motor development

2005

Acquisition of Semar

Acquisition of brushcard manufacturer

2010

EU Sales operations

Opening of Sales / Marketing network in Europe

2005

USA Sales Office

Start of operations in USA

2016

Italian plant

Extension of Italian plant

2019

Brushless motors

SOP automated overmolding of stators (Brushless motors)

2020

Turnover

Airflow turnover over 10 MLN€

2021

General Cab Wordwide

SALES DISTRIBUTION & ENGINEERING CENTER - USA

Quality and Environment

In order to meet customer expectations in terms of QUALITY, COST and DELIVERY General Cab complies with international standards and is certified for ISO 9001:2008, ISO TS 16949:2009 and also actively works with the continual improvement of its internal processes. 

General Cab maintains the commitment to the environment. We do this through an environmental culture, working on the continuous improvement of the environmental performance of our products and our production processes and achieved ISO 14001 certification on 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

Products can be based on:
  • 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