BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound has brought a new manufacturing facility, named Phoebe, online in Berkeley, Calif. Since being founded by John and Helen Meyer in 1979, Meyer has dictated that manufacturing take place at the company's headquarters in Northern California. The company's first years were spent at a location in San Leandro, but since 1984, manufacturing has been performed at the company's base in Berkeley. Meyer Sound's recent expansion has led to making its products in several buildings clustered around the original building and named according to a planetary theme. Named for a small moon of Saturn, Phoebe is mainly an expansion of the Saturn transducer facility. Phoebe supplements Meyer Sound's existing driver production capabilities and adds new ones. Parts of the driver manufacturing process are being revamped as they are implemented at Phoebe in order to increase efficiency and consistency.
Phoebe includes a new department known as the reliability testing area. Here, rows of thick concrete chambers allow for accelerated life testing of Meyer Sound products. Each chamber is equipped with an identical test setup. Engineering R&D also maintains two large chambers in this room for testing development prototypes.
Low-frequency driver and magnetic assemblies from subassemblies and components made at Saturn are being performed in one room of Phoebe, while low driver final QA (Quality Assurance) testing is conducted in an adjacent area. Newly designed test rigs have already increased capacity. Both testing areas (final QA and reliability) are under the control of the company's QA department.
Phoebe continues coming online in 2007, as Meyer Sound's facilities are being refined. Factory tours go through key production areas, providing graphic demonstrations of the testing that takes place at the new Phoebe facility.
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